weaving – KDD & Co

Tressa Weidenaar

Tressa’s beautifully balanced work, inspired by her Navajo culture and landscape

Monk’s Belt Hat

Hand-knitting and hand-weaving speak eloquently to one another in the beautiful work of Janet Bowen

Mariam Syed

By: Kate Davies Designs May 30, 2021May 30, 2021

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Introducing talented Scottish-Pakistani weaver, Mariam Syed

make / mend: Collingwood-Norris

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

red shawl and yellow belt

By: Kate Davies Designs June 20, 2020June 20, 2020

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I imagine most of you were looking at the shawl I’m waving about in these pictures yesterday, but today I’m going to talk about the belt I’m wearing too. I wove this belt back at the start of the year, when I’d really got into pick-up weaving In fact, it was one of the first…

weaving with Milarrochy Tweed

By: Kate Davies Designs May 7, 2020May 7, 2020

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Good morning! I spent yesterday afternoon sat outside on the freshly painted decking, weaving in the sunshine. Which really felt like quite a treat. I’ve been wanting to weave with my own Milarrochy Tweed for a while, and yesterday I decided to finally take the plunge. I was a little nervous for two reasons: first,…

Crafting Futures: in the Hebrides

Today I’m sharing the first of series of images and recollections from the Applied Arts Scotland residency I was part of last September – which seems, for so many reasons, like a very long time ago. This residency was part of the British Council’s Crafting Futures programme, bringing makers from Scotland and Mexico together, to…

experiments never fail

By: Kate Davies Designs April 27, 2020April 27, 2020

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Yesterday I was weaving some buttons for a project I’m working on (similar to these) and began looking at small weaving projects online. I kept coming across beautiful images of wrapped stones (you know the kind of thing) and decided to have a go. There’s a large collection of pebbles on my desk and so…

a blue belt

By: Kate Davies Designs April 18, 2020

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Just a bit of weaving to show you today. I find sitting to make a plain weave belt extremely relaxing – I put on the radio or a podcast (at the moment I’m enjoying the back catalogue of the Listening Service) and work away for a few hours. Often when I’m knitting, I’m thinking ahead…

findings

By: Kate Davies Designs March 31, 2020March 31, 2020

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Good morning, all. If you’ve not read the comments on yesterday’s post, might I suggest you do so? From Parisian ducks and the red-legged partridges of Portpatrick, to the sometimes-silent parrots of Buenos Aires, Australian pelicans, the egrets of North California, and the hummingbirds of Tennesee, Arizona or Texas, it was wonderful to read your…

Coofle

By: Kate Davies Designs March 27, 2020March 27, 2020

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This is a very cheerful sweater And to accompany it, I’m wearing the most cheering pair of shoes I own. . . Yes, even someone with a dropped foot and appalling balance can gad about in these ridiculous ruby slippers! Back to the sweater, whose name is Coofle: an old Scots word for a puzzle,…

an OXO belt

By: Kate Davies Designs March 26, 2020March 26, 2020

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Good morning! Time for a weaving post! I’ve been enjoying making plain weave belts (like the one which accompanies my Land o’Cakes cardigan) and narrow pick-up bands (like my phone lanyard or mitten strap) and wondered if I might bring the two techniques together. It’s the difference in thread thickness that makes the motifs on…

Land o’ Cakes

By: Kate Davies Designs March 20, 2020April 24, 2021

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Morning, everyone. Hope you are all very well and looking after each other. The whole team here is fine, and we feel extremely grateful for our internet connections and well-established methods of remote working. Sam is at the warehouse, in happy solitude, and will continue shipping anything you order, both locally and internationally, as long…

mittens for the absent-minded

By: Kate Davies Designs February 20, 2020February 20, 2020

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When you were a kid, did you wear your mittens and gloves on bands or strings threaded through your coat sleeves to keep them safe? I did, and have very vivid recollections of disliking the practice as I grew older, for seeming childish. My grandma knitted all my gloves and mittens, and if keeping them…