I remember reading something about how Knitting was used as a way to store Binary Information, Codes, and primitive Programs. I'm not sure I understand how it worked, but I think NASA used a woven core rope memory system for the Apollo missions.
A couple years ago I found a bunch of my grandmothers old Knitting Patterns from the 1950's, and was surprised by how much they looked like a simple program written in some BASIC or PASCAL dialect from the 70's or early 80's.
I've often thought about making some little program that I could feed the patterns into... Just to see the results... And maybe see what she was planning on making.
This is not one of hers, I just found it online,
But I think you might be able to see how they resemble some early programming....
