A 1954 issue of Master Weaver (Fulford, Quebec) carries an editorial arguing that handweaving is not easy and that advertising claims of 'easy' looms, yarns and lessons are misleading and discourage beginners. The second page begins a section on 'Coded Weaving', explaining how to weave coded messages into four-block drafts by using the number of picks per block to stand for letters, with a code table (Fig. 1) and a small draft (Fig. 2).