textiles – KDD & Co

two new projects

By: KDD April 27, 2021April 27, 2021

books, design, feminism, History, Kate Davies Designs, publishing, textiles, women, writing, yarnbluestockings, book, club, collar de pilar, coofle, eighteenth century, eighteenth century history, eighteenth century women, elizabeth montagu, elizabeth montagu correspondence, emco, feminism, inkle, inkle loom, inkle weaving, inkling, inklings, Land o' Cakes, nicole pohl, phillis wheatley peters, projects, publishing, the bluestocking club, Treit, women writers, women's writing, yarn, yorlin47 Comments on two new projects

News about Inkling, and The Bluestocking Club

black teacher

By: KDD April 21, 2021April 21, 2021

books, clothing, publishing, textiles, women, writingbalance for better blanket, Beryl Gilroy, black women, blanket, Darla-Jane Gilroy, Felicity Ford, Paul Gilroy, women, women writers, women's history, writing22 Comments on black teacher

Celebrating the work of a trailblazing black British woman writer

¿Quieres bailar?

By: KDD April 11, 2021April 11, 2021

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

Are ye dancin?

work in progress

By: KDD April 9, 2021April 9, 2021

collaboration, Crafting Futures, making, masks, mexico, play, textilesApplied Arts Scotland, collaboration, Crafting Futures, creativity, design, making, masks, performance, play, ritual11 Comments on work in progress

A creative collaboration celebrating performance, parody and play

reflections on My Place

By: KDD April 4, 2021April 4, 2021

blogging, creativity, My Place, textiles2020, 2021, 2022, blogging, blogs, challenge, change, competition, creativity, design, media, My Place, newsletters22 Comments on reflections on My Place

The My Place project illustrates how a challenge might turn into a creative opportunity

blogging, creativity, My Place, textiles2020, 2021, 2022, blogging, blogs, challenge, change, competition, creativity, design, media, My Place, newsletters22 Comments on reflections on My Place

Winter’s End

By: KDD March 24, 2021March 24, 2021

embroidery, landscape, My Place, seasonal, textiles, vegetablesart, Bonnie Sennott, embroidery, food, knitting, landscape, My Place, seasonal, seasons, vegetable growing, vegetables7 Comments on Winter’s End

Bonnie Sennot finds inspiration at Winter’s End.

out of the woods

By: KDD March 3, 2021March 21, 2021

craft, History, knitting, landscape, My Place, textile history, textilescowl, design, finland, forests, knitting, knitwear, Milarrochy Tweed, My Place, out of the woods, outi kater, trees, woods17 Comments on out of the woods

Outi Kater introduces a wonderful design inspired by Finnish childhood winters and restorative woodland spaces

knowe

By: KDD February 26, 2021March 21, 2021

personal, textilesCovid, design, immunisation, knitting, knowe, Schiehallion22 Comments on knowe

A new colourway of a favourite 10 Years in the Making design, together with some good news

personal, textilesCovid, design, immunisation, knitting, knowe, Schiehallion22 Comments on knowe

the thaw

By: KDD February 17, 2021March 21, 2021

colour, craft, creativity, design, knitting, landscape, My Place, seasonal, textilesArctic, Canada, Canadian Arctic, climate change, design, global warming, ice, Inukshuk, knitting, landscape, Milarrochy Tweed, My Place, Nunavut, Rankin Inlet, Rebecca Osborn, seasons, shawl, thaw14 Comments on the thaw

Rebecca Osborn shares a beautiful design, inspired by her place in the Canadian Arctic

the fabric of memory

By: KDD February 14, 2021March 21, 2021

books, criticism, History, memory, review, review, textile history, textiles, writingbook review, books, brain, Claire Wilcox, clothes, colour, Colours of our Memories, History, memory, Michel Pastoreau, neurology, Patch Work: A life amongst clothes, psychiatry, research, review, textile history, textiles, the brain, The Rag and Bone Shop, Veronica O'Keane, writing63 Comments on the fabric of memory

Do you dream in textiles?

Lilias Day (in colour)

By: KDD February 12, 2021March 21, 2021

color, colour, design, fairisle, Kate Davies Designs, knitting, textiles, yarn, YOKES!color, colour, colourwork, design, knitting, Lilias Day, Schiehallion, stranded colourwork, stranded knitting, sweater, sweaters, yarn, yoke, yoke sweaters19 Comments on Lilias Day (in colour)

A colourful sweater, in the snow

Na Séasúir

By: KDD February 10, 2021March 21, 2021

amazing knitters, design, knitters, knitting, landscape, Milarrochy Tweed, My Place, poetry, seasonal, textilesdesign, knitting, landscape, Maine, Mary O'Shea, Milarrochy Tweed, My Place, place, poetry, seasonal, seasons, Tullymongan, writiing20 Comments on Na Séasúir

Mary O’Shea introduces a glorious circular scarf whose colours turn with her, through the seasons

make / mend: Collingwood-Norris

By: KDD February 6, 2021March 21, 2021

business, color, colour, design, interview, landscape, making, Scotland, Scottish textiles, textiles, womenbusiness, Collingwood-Norris, colour, darning, design, fashion, Flora Collingwood-Norris, Hebrides, industry, knitwear, landscape, making, mending, repairing, Scotland, Scottish Borders, textiles, visible mending, weaving, Western Isles34 Comments on make / mend: Collingwood-Norris

Kate talks to Flora Collingwood-Norris about mending, Scottish islands, and how colour makes you feel

Cas

By: KDD February 3, 2021March 21, 2021

amazing knitters, design, Images of knitting, Ireland, knitters, knitting, Milarrochy Tweed, My Place, textilesaran knitting, Aran sweaters, cables, design, Eimear Earley, high crosses, Ireland, Irish history, Irish knitting, knitting, knitting history, Medieval history, motif, My Place, pattern, shawl23 Comments on Cas

Eimear Earley introduces a gorgeous shawl inspired by the golden age of Irish art

Gitchi-Gami

By: KDD January 27, 2021March 21, 2021

amazing knitters, design, knitting, landscape, My Place, textiles, travelcolour, colourwork, design, Gitchi-Gami, lake superior, landscape, Milarrochy Tweed, Minnesota, mittens, place, scarf, stranded colourwork, tam, travel, Virgina Sattler-Reimer22 Comments on Gitchi-Gami

Virginia Sattler-Reimer takes us to her place

screen knits

By: KDD January 13, 2021January 13, 2021

film, knitting, textilesArvingerne, Borderliner, Charlotte Rampling, Colours of Shetland, DNA, film, Grenseland, knits, knitting, older women, screen, The Legacy, TV, Ursula99 Comments on screen knits

Do you become obsessed with sweaters you see in films or TV? I frequently do, and on several occasions these obsessions have developed into fully-formed pattern ideas. Ursula, for example, began life with a very fleeting glimpse of a cardigan worn by a character in South Riding, a 2011 BBC miniseries set in the 1930s.…

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