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the money of colour

What might it mean to own a colour?

The problematic race to the POP

Is it a kind of quick-fix magic? or a concept that has got too big for its boots?

By: Kate Davies Designs November 16, 2022November 18, 2022 allover club, art, color, colour, photographyart, color, colour, photography, rainbow, rainbows, science, writing53 Comments

how to see a rainbow

the optical phenomenon with important resonances of joy, hope, and solidarity

Woolly Originals

place, pattern and colour combine in beautiful, original design

Chevreul’s simultaneous contrast

The innovative yarn dyer who changed the world of colour

Terri Laura talks colour

colour personalities and practical steps to plan a pallette

fugitive colour

finding a place of joy and questioning

Knitting an anti-surveillance jumper

A brilliantly innovative combination of the material and the digital

shop

Step on over to the KDD shop to find our exclusive own-brand yarns, beautifully produced books, patterns for hand-knitting, ready-to-wear knits, and photographic prints

about KDD

Founded by Kate Davies, we are a small creative company, publishing beautiful books, manufacturing our own woolly yarns, and creating wonderfully wearable designs for handknitters. We are based in the west of Scotland.

Tutorials

Need help with a technique? We have handy tutorials to assist you with everything from cutting your first steek to constructing a hap stretcher.

the money of colour

What might it mean to own a colour?

The problematic race to the POP

Is it a kind of quick-fix magic? or a concept that has got too big for its boots?

how to see a rainbow

By: Kate Davies Designs November 16, 2022November 18, 2022

allover club, art, color, colour, photographyart, color, colour, photography, rainbow, rainbows, science, writing53 Comments

the optical phenomenon with important resonances of joy, hope, and solidarity

Woolly Originals

place, pattern and colour combine in beautiful, original design

Chevreul’s simultaneous contrast

The innovative yarn dyer who changed the world of colour

Terri Laura talks colour

colour personalities and practical steps to plan a pallette

fugitive colour

finding a place of joy and questioning

Knitting an anti-surveillance jumper

A brilliantly innovative combination of the material and the digital

evocative colour

By: Kate Davies Designs October 20, 2022October 20, 2022

allover club, color, colourallover club, color, colour, History, history of colour, shade cards, shades222 Comments

What’s your favourite shade name?

Have you signed up for the allover club?

By: Kate Davies Designs October 14, 2022

allover cluballover, allover club, color, colour25 Comments

10 days to go!

Kelp

A beautiful design, supporting an important cause

Knitsonik – and friends

chatting about colour, joy, and collaboration with the inimitable KNITSONIK

thank you

By: Kate Davies Designs September 29, 2022

design, Kate Davies Designs, knitting, publishingbook, design, knitting, ooskit, publishing, sark, second edition7 Comments

Sark second edition in the offing

Operculum

By: Kate Davies Designs September 28, 2022September 28, 2022

My Placecolourwork, design, designers, designing, knitting, Lucy Razzall, makers, making, material culture, Milarrochy Tweed, My Place, Operculum, pattern, stranded colourwork, tam27 Comments

Lucy Razzall’s hat celebrates everyday design and the thing-ness of place

Serkinet

By: Kate Davies Designs September 26, 2022September 26, 2022

creativity, design, making, processcardigan, creativity, design, knitting, making, process, sark, Serkinet24 Comments

on the additional labour of cardigans

Smookie

a hand-knitted smock for autumn