mexico – KDD & Co

egg-speriment

By: Kate Davies Designs April 20, 2025April 20, 2025

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plant-dyed, plant-decorated eggs

set for September

By: Kate Davies Designs August 27, 2021August 27, 2021

collaboration, color, colour, Crafting Futures, creativity, design, fairisle, inspiration, Kate Davies Designs, knitting, mexico, Milarrochy Tweed, seasonal, YOKES!Autumn, Carbeth Creature, collar de pilar, colourwork, design, featured, inkling, knitting, mexico, Milarrochy Tweed, seasons, September, stranded colourwork, yoke, yoke jumper, yoke pullover, yoke sweater8 Comments on set for September

Collar de Pilar – with long sleeves

meet, make, collaborate

By: Kate Davies Designs August 26, 2021August 26, 2021

art, collaboration, craft, Crafting Futures, exhibition, mexicoApplied Arts Scotland, art, Banchory, Bii Daüü Collective, British Council, Carol Sinclair, collaboration, craft, Crafting Futures, Crafting Futures mexico, creative scotland, Dalila Cruz, exhibition, featured, Fiona Hall, identity, Jennifer Green, Kawisara Anansaringkarn, Kiersten Holden-Ada, landscape, louise barrington, lynne Hocking Mennie, makers, making, meet make collaborate, Mengnan Qu, mexico, place, Prach Niyomkar, Rebecca Hannon, Sarah Paramor, Soledad Ruizz Mendoza, Stephanie Cheong, Susan O’Byrne, The Barn13 Comments on meet, make, collaborate

creative, collective and protective acts of making

the Carbeth creature goes north

By: Kate Davies Designs August 18, 2021August 18, 2021

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The Carbeth creature takes a trip to Banchory

creature feature

By: Kate Davies Designs April 14, 2021April 14, 2021

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some of the thinking behind the making

¿Quieres bailar?

By: Kate Davies Designs April 11, 2021April 11, 2021

art, beasties, craft, Crafting Futures, creativity, folk art, making, masks, mexico, textilesart, creativity, creature, dance, featured, folk art, making, mask, mexico, process, Scotland, wool66 Comments on ¿Quieres bailar?

Are ye dancin?

behind the mask

By: Kate Davies Designs April 10, 2021April 10, 2021

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accepting that not everything works out is key to the (slow) creative process

work in progress

By: Kate Davies Designs April 9, 2021April 9, 2021

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A creative collaboration celebrating performance, parody and play

the mask’s on you

By: Kate Davies Designs May 27, 2020April 11, 2021

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Jaguar and Tiger, Chilapa, 2017. Phyllis Galembo, Mexico: Masks, Rituals (2019) This is the fourth in my series of posts about my participation in an Applied Arts Scotland / British Council Crafting Futures residency, the work I’m developing as a consequence, and the impact of the project on my own practice. You can read parts…

Crafting Futures: in the Hebrides

By: Kate Davies Designs April 29, 2020April 29, 2020

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Today I’m sharing the first of series of images and recollections from the Applied Arts Scotland residency I was part of last September – which seems, for so many reasons, like a very long time ago. This residency was part of the British Council’s Crafting Futures programme, bringing makers from Scotland and Mexico together, to…