Secret Message Hidden in a Victorian-Era Silk Dress Is Actually a Long-Lost Code

Ten years ago, an archaeological curator by the name of Sara Rivers-Cofield bought a bronze Victorian-era silk dress at a shop in Maine.

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Cracking the code: messages found in silk dress decoded by Manitoba researcher πŸ‘—
https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/cracking-the-code-messages-found-in-silk-dress-decoded-by-manitoba-researcher-1.6694454

* coded messages in folds of a Victorian-era dress finally decoded
* The Silk Dress Cryptogram
* published in August 2023 edition of Cryptologia

Update:
Dress code: How a Winnipeg codebreaker cracked one of the 'world's top unsolved messages'
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/code-silk-dress-cryptogram-1.7056758

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Cracking the code: messages found in silk dress decoded by Manitoba researcher

Coded messages found in the folds of a Victorian-era dress were finally cracked by a University of Manitoba researcher almost a decade after they were discovered.

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