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ooskit!

By: Kate Davies Designs October 15, 2021October 15, 2021

textilesbritish wool, circular economy, featured, Kate Davies designs, KDD, manufacturing, new yarn, ooskit, recycled, sustainability, wool, yarn20 Comments

it’s yarn-launch day!

Natalie Warner

Introducing a talented designer and her fascinating professional journey

mend

We celebrate the new edition of Wheesht with this essay exploring the creative work of mending and Celia Pym’s inspiring practice

slowdown

By: Kate Davies Designs June 16, 2020June 16, 2020

books, criticism, gardening, landscape, review, stroke, vegetables, walkingbooks, featured, garden, reading, slowness, sustainability30 Comments

Hello! how are you all doing? My migraines have been of the annoyingly recurrent / chronic kind of late, and I’ve been having to take things very easy – especially over the past week or so, during which my vision has been very skewy and I’ve had to limit my screen time. Not being glued…

Repair Café Glasgow

By: Kate Davies Designs April 28, 2020April 28, 2020

People MAKE Glasgow, photography, workcreativity, featured, Glasgow, making, mending, People MAKE Glasgow, repair, sustainability37 Comments

Though we’ve not seen one another in person for more than 6 weeks, the KDD team are in touch every day, and, at the moment, one of the things we are working on from our separate locations is our People MAKE Glasgow book. Over the past year, we’ve conducted a series of interviews and photoshoots…

making things “locally”

As my business has grown over the past few years I have learned a lot about making things locally. Working with Scottish, Irish, and English producers, I’ve made my own books, and yarn, and knitwear. I’ve collaborated with many different types of manufacturers, from printers and spinners to dyers and wool producers. Being able to…