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Need wool? here’s where to find our range of 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 sustainable 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.

sock of the week no.4

Gairloch stockings: A Highland design success story

Aoife Mc Lysaght

Introducing wise and generous Aoife Mc Lysaght

Sanna

A glorious west coast beach

sock of the week no.3

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

3 nbo

By: KDD June 7, 2021June 7, 2021

knitting, writing3 needle bind off, bind off, Carbeth Cardigan, garter stitch, knitting, Let Glasgow Flourish, necklines, shoulders, St Catherines, technique, three needle bind off24 Comments

In praise of the brilliantly simple 3 needle bind off

sock of the week no.2

By: KDD June 2, 2021June 2, 2021

History, sock of the week, socks, textile history, textilesfashion history, frame knit stockings, Lady Clapham, Lord Clapham, silk, silk stockings, sock of the week, socks, stockings, textile history, V&A Museum12 Comments

Eighteenth-century stockings in miniature

Castle Tioram walk

By: KDD June 1, 2021June 1, 2021

architecture, History, landscape, Scotland, walking, West Highlandsardnamurchan, Castle Tioram, Highlands, Moidart, Scotland, Silver Walk, walk, walking10 Comments

exploring a spectacular landscape and its turbulent history

Mariam Syed

By: KDD May 30, 2021May 30, 2021

bluestockings, People MAKE Glasgow, textiles, weavingbluestocking club, bluestockings, feminism, Islamic art, Mariam Syed, People MAKE Glasgow, Scottish weaving, textiles, weaving, women9 Comments

Introducing talented Scottish-Pakistani weaver, Mariam Syed

sock of the week no.1

Philippe Mercier’s popular portrait of an eighteenth-century stocking knitter

a chat with Nicole Pohl

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

inkling is out

By: KDD May 16, 2021May 16, 2021

books, creativity, Kate Davies Designs, making, publishing, textilesbooks, creativity, design, inkling, knitting, making, Milarrochy Tweed, publishing, work9 Comments

The Inkling book is published!

the bluestocking club

all about the Bluestocking club

a walking week

By: KDD May 13, 2021May 13, 2021

History, landscape, photography, Scotland, walkingardnamurchan, History, landscape, Lochaber, Moidart, photography, Scotland, Scottish Highlands, Scottish history, walking17 Comments

exploring a stunning part of Scotland

all the colours

By: KDD May 10, 2021May 10, 2021

color, colour, creativity, kits, knitting, Milarrochy Tweedcolor, colour, creativity, Dathan, Dathan hap, Dathan pullover, experimentation, knitting, Milarrochy Tweed, shades9 Comments

New shades for the Dathan pullover and hap.

two new projects

News about Inkling, and The Bluestocking Club

black teacher

Celebrating the work of a trailblazing black British woman writer