women – KDD & Co

Marina Moskowitz

an inspiring conversation about everyday stuff and big ideas

sock of the week: no.10

the “everlasting stocking knitters” of Wales

Mimi and Gloria Onyekwere

contemporary bluestockings, Mimi and Gloria Onyekwere

Oxford Bluestockings

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

bluestockings, feminism, friends, womenblogging, bluestockings, Felicity Ford, felix ford, feminism, friendship, knitting, Lara Clements, learning, liz ashdowne, oxford bluestockings10 Comments

contemporary bluestockings sharing their knitting, their learning and their feminism

Natalie Warner

Introducing a talented designer and her fascinating professional journey

Aoife Mc Lysaght

Introducing wise and generous Aoife Mc Lysaght

sock of the week no.3

Celebrating the world’s first sock knitting book, and its bluestocking author

a chat with Nicole Pohl

Nicole tells us more about her work on the women of the Bluestocking circle

two new projects

News about Inkling, and The Bluestocking Club

black teacher

Celebrating the work of a trailblazing black British woman writer

inspiring women

By: Kate Davies Designs March 7, 2021March 21, 2021

feminism, womenfeminism, inspiring projects, International Women's Day, knitting, women14 Comments

Celebrating brilliant knitters around the world for international women’s day

make / mend: Collingwood-Norris

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

I’ve a long-held fascination with late eighteenth-century hot air balloons and ballooning. In fact, I’ve even knitted an eighteenth-century balloon (in a square of our International Women’s Day blanket, which references the Montgolfier balloon that appears in the final lines of Anna Laetitia Barbauld’s brilliant poem, Washing Day) In the past few weeks, my historic…

keeping shop

By: Kate Davies Designs July 23, 2020July 23, 2020

art, History, womenart, empire, Glasgow, History, manufacturing, painting, People MAKE Glasgow, retail, rum, shopkeeping, slavery, sugar, women's history12 Comments

As part of my research for the introduction to our People Make Glasgow book, I’ve been doing some highly enjoyable work poking about the city’s eighteenth and nineteenth-century post office directories, which provide intriguing lists of Glasgow’s merchants, manufacturing and retail businesses (much like the yellow pages). Looking at these directories across a century or…