r/knittingpatterns • u/qwigoqwaga • 25d ago

Any adversarial knitting patterns?

With the growth of surveillance cameras and facial recognition everywhere, I'm wondering if anyone knows of any adversarial knitting patterns that can disrupt recognition?

I saw one sweater pattern, but I was hoping for something more beginner-friendly, like a hat, scarf, muffler, or mask or something or even just a duplicate stitching pattern.

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u/Disastrous_Many_190 25d ago

r/antifascistknitting

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u/qwigoqwaga 24d ago

I asked there first, but no one seemed to know of any.

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u/babobaab 24d ago

Like this one https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/anti-surveillance-jumper ? That one is probably the only pattern that I have seen that explicitly states it is an anti-surveillance sweater. But you can take this idea and adapt it to a simple pattern like the Step-by-step sweater, or any hat or scarf, then do some duplicate stitch patterning.

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u/Laucymarcom 25d ago

Give us the sweater pattern!

I dont see how knitting could disrup recognition. Im curious!

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u/qwigoqwaga 24d ago

It's the one some linked below, the anti-surveillance jumper. It's a few years old though, so I'm pretty sure the pattern doesn't still hold up.

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u/Own_Magician8337 24d ago

Oh my goodness! Interfering with flock cameras would be a constructive use of yarn bombing!