A · The Trunk
The lid of a steamer trunk, every port a label pasted at an angle. The hero label sits in the middle of the cluster; the particulars come after, off the trunk. No photograph, all paper.
Edition No. 01
Budapest · Passau
B · The Baggage Tag
One tag, string and eyelet and all, is the whole hero. Nothing beside it. The rubber stamp is the only second ink.
The Passage Club
Edition No. 01
Budapest → Bratislava → Vienna → Dürnstein → Melk → Passau
Booking open. November 2027. One hundred and fifty berths.MS Aurelia · whole-ship charter · seven days
Tie this to your case. It says you are one of a hundred and fifty knitters taking a river ship up the Danube for a week, with Margit Sørensen and nobody who isn’t knitting.
Cabins from $4,950 per knitter · Departs Budapest, 6 November 2027
C · The View
Old hotel labels printed the view. A duotone photograph of Budapest sits inside the scalloped label, in the two inks, with the lockup engraved over the sky.
The Passage Club · Edition No. 01
Budapest Bratislava Vienna Dürnstein Melk Passau
November 2027
Old hotel labels printed the view from the window. Ours prints the view from the top deck, the night the MS Aurelia slips her lines at Budapest with a hundred and fifty knitters aboard and Margit Sørensen casting on in the lounge.
Cabins from $4,950 per knitter · six mornings ashore · whole-ship charter
D · The Porthole
The roundel die at full size, the marque running round the rim and Vienna at dusk through the glass. Copy beside it.
Through the glass, Vienna
A whole river ship, a hundred and fifty knitters, seven days going upstream from Budapest to Passau. Margit Sørensen aboard the entire way.
E · The Belt
Big poster type up top, then the six port labels rolling past on a slow carousel, one die per town. The route as a collection you are about to make.
The Passage Club
Edition No. 01
Six river towns in seven days, a label for each. Collect the set.
The MS Aurelia is chartered whole for a hundred and fifty knitters. Margit Sørensen hosts. Mornings ashore, afternoons and evenings with wool in hand, going upstream the slow way.
Departs Budapest 6 November 2027 · cabins from $4,950 per knitter
F · The Passport
An open spread. The label on the left leaf, six blue entry stamps on the right, one for each morning ashore, dated.
The Passage Club
Edition No. 01
Budapest → Passau · 7 days
02
Visas & Entries
03
Six mornings ashore, six stamps. Between them, a river ship that carries only knitters, a hundred and fifty of us, upstream from Budapest to Passau with Margit Sørensen in the lounge every evening.
MS Aurelia, whole-ship charter · cabins from $4,950 per knitter
G · The Ticket
A landscape ticket on the ticking stripe from the boss’s green poster. Perforation down the middle, the stub carries the price and date.
The Passage Club presents
Edition No. 01
Seven days upriver aboard the MS Aurelia, chartered whole
Budapest → Bratislava → Vienna → Dürnstein → Melk → Passau
Admit one knitter and their wool · this ticket is good for the whole passage
No. 0001 of 150
One ticket, one berth, a hundred and fifty knitters and no one else on board. Keep the stub.
H · The Blush Edition
The same label system in the boss’s second colourway: terracotta ink on blush paper, poster-vertical. Proof the system survives a recolour.
Edition No. 01
Budapest → Vienna → Passau
Seven days aboard the MS Aurelia · November 2027
The whole ship, and only knitters on it. A hundred and fifty of us, six river towns, Margit Sørensen every evening, and the Danube doing the slow part.
Cabins from $4,950 per knitter · departs Budapest, 6 November 2027
I · The Shipping Line
A Cunard-style baggage label for the ship rather than the town. Navy ground, sand ink, engraved ship, a duotone strip of the river along the top.
Passage Club Line · Danube Service
Knitting the Danube · Edition No. 01
Chartered entire for one hundred and fifty knitters · Sailing 6 November 2027
A label for the ship, not the town. The Aurelia is ours from bow to stern for the week, Margit Sørensen aboard, six mornings in six river towns and every evening on the water with the needles going.
Cabins from $4,950 per knitter
J · The Postcard
The woodblock Wachau as a postcard, stamped and postmarked, pinned beside the label. Two objects on a desk, the label doing the talking.
Wachau · from the MS Aurelia
The Passage Club
Edition No. 01
Budapest → Passau
Wish you were knitting here
Seven days up the Danube on a ship that carries a hundred and fifty knitters and nothing else. Six river towns in the mornings. Wool, Margit Sørensen and the lamplit lounge from lunch until late.