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mend

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

We were able to put quite a few things in the KDD shop last week, including our brand new 10 Years in the Making book. The book is now available for wholesale too, so if you are a bookshop or yarn store (or know a bookshop or yarn store) who would like to stock this…

the closing year

By: KDD December 18, 2020December 18, 2020

books, design, Kate Davies Designs, publishing, review, seasonal10 Years in the making, colour moves, design, Glasgow, knitting, publishing, Warm Hands, writing33 Comments

As the first copies of our 10 Years in the Making book arrived in the KDD warehouse yesterday, I thought (not for the first time) about what a very weird year it has been. We published four brand new titles . . . . . .and created 23 new patterns – the majority of which…

a whole lot of yokes

By: KDD October 29, 2020October 29, 2020

design, Kate Davies, Kate Davies Designs, knitting, publishing, textiles, YOKES!business, design, publishing, sweaters, yoke sweaters, yokes23 Comments

We’ve been waiting for the new edition of YOKES to arrive from our printer, and I thought I’d go back through my records and check exactly how many copies we’d sold, in total, since the book was first published in December, 2014. I discovered that the total number of YOKES we’ve printed and sold is…

a chat with Misa Hay

There is no getting away from the fact that, whatever business you are in, this year has been a very weird one. Having to change the nature and direction of what you are doing – often very rapidly – is never an easy thing, and this year there have been so many of those changes.…

Glasgow’s atelier economy: then and now

By: KDD September 28, 2020September 28, 2020

History, making, People MAKE Glasgow, photography, Politics, writingbook, Glasgow, History, People MAKE Glasgow, photography, Politics, publishing, slavery, writing8 Comments

Today I thought I’d share with you the introductory words I wrote for People MAKE Glasgow . For me – a former eighteenth-century specialist – the connections between Glasgow’s eighteenth-century past and its twenty-first century present have always been apparent, and I really enjoyed having the opportunity to write about those connections here. People MAKE…

People MAKE Glasgow

By: KDD September 11, 2020September 11, 2020

People MAKE Glasgowcreativity, making, manufacturing, People MAKE Glasgow, publishing9 Comments

Hurrah! It is People MAKE Glasgow launch day! As well as introducing you to what the book’s about, in this wee film you see one of the Glasgow makers featured in it – talented signwriter Rachel E Millar – creating the book’s cover art on one of the interior walls of the KDD warehouse. In…

10 years in the making club

By: KDD September 7, 2020September 18, 2020

Kate Davies, Kate Davies Designs, knitting10 Years in the making, club, design, handknitting, knitting, launch, patterns, publishing, subscription club, yarn36 Comments

Hello! We have a busy week ahead here at KDD – and the whole team is still hard at work preparing everything behind the scenes for three almost-simultaneous big launches: our People MAKE Glasgow book; our beautiful new Schiehallion yarn, and our new club. I’ll tell you all about Schiehallion later in the week, but…

remembering Walter Crane

Walter Crane, The Triumph of Labour (1891) ©The Trustees of the British Museum It was May Day a couple of days ago, an occasion that puts me immediately in mind of this wonderful image . . . Walter Crane, A Garland for May Day (1895) ©The Trustees of the British Museum . . . which…

Colour Moves is published!

By: KDD March 29, 2020March 29, 2020

books, design, knitting, publishingClaudia Fiocchetti, colour moves, design, knitting, Make / Mark, mittens, mitts, publishing20 Comments

I want to thank everyone for your comments on yesterday’s post. Reading them, I was struck very strongly by the feeling of our all facing exactly the same pressing issue in our disparate regions in the world – an unusual sense of connection, but not one to be ignored. Today’s is an ‘announcement’ kind of…

Colour Moves

By: KDD March 17, 2020

books, colour, design, knitting, publishingbook, Claudia Fiocchetti, colour moves, design, knitting, Make / Mark, publishing7 Comments

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all doing well and looking after yourselves and each other. We are all fine here at KDD: indeed, all of us feel very fortunate that our circumstances are such that we can continue our operation relatively uninterrupted, work from home, and have the capacity to help our families…

light, write, colour

By: KDD March 9, 2020March 9, 2020

design, exhibition, knitting, patterns, photography, poetry, publishingClaudia Fiocchetti, colour moves, light by the sea, Make / Mark, publishing, Write by the sea10 Comments

The past few weeks have seen some rather intense creative activity, as Tom and I prepare for an exciting weekend in Argyll. On Friday, Tom will be opening an exhibition of his new work at the Tighnabruaich gallery, Light by the Sea. As well as his beautiful photographic seascapes, each of which evokes the distinctive…

12 months

By: KDD December 24, 2019December 18, 2020

making, Politics, publishing, Scotland2019, Applied Arts Scotland, Crafting Futures, creativity, end of year, publishing, wheesht, work36 Comments

We are about to take our short festive break, and have all been looking back over the past 12 months. 2019 has certainly been a very significant year for us as a publisher. With our Glasgow printers, Bell & Bain, we’ve completed work on four new titles, and printed around 18,000 books (the largest number…

wheesht

By: KDD December 6, 2019December 6, 2019

creativity, Kate Davies, publishing, reading, writingbook, business, creativity, disability, independent publishing, publishing, small publishing, wheesht, writing11 Comments

Wheesht is published! You can now buy the book in the KDD shop, find out more about it at its dedicated website and we’ve even produced a set of 12 jolly postcards featuring the wonderful illustrations that Tom created for each chapter of the book. If you were part of our club earlier this year,…

Publishing news

By: KDD November 1, 2019November 2, 2019

creativity, design, publishingbooks, business, commissioning, distribution, Kate Davies designs, Makadu, Make / Mark, new authors, publishing, trade, wholesale15 Comments

In recent years, the book-publishing side of what we do here at KDD has grown pretty dramatically. We’ve made some exciting changes that reflect that growth – both in the way we distribute our titles as well as in the kinds of books we publish. You’ll find more about the latter topic towards the end…

all about Bold Beginner Knits

By: KDD July 10, 2019July 10, 2019

design, knitting, process, publishingbold beginner knits, design, Jane Hunter, publishing18 Comments

Kate here! I’ve just about recovered from all our Xpo north fun, and am now back at my desk, finishing work on our latest book project Bold Beginner Knits – a collection of 6 intriguing, wearable, and simply knit-able designs in our beautiful aran-weight yarn Àrd-Thìr – which I created for my friend, and KDD…

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