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• ByKate Davies

  Looking out beyond the lighthouse, there is once again that restless end-of-summer feeling: to knit a sweater, to tell a story, to turn your face to the sun as you prepare for darker nights and colder days …

  *A collection of 10 designs, inspired by a beautiful tidal landscape

  *Essays and photography, celebrating the island and its story

  Like many other artists, makers and writers, Kate Davies and Tom Barr have been inspired by Davaar, the spectacular tidal island whose rocky silhouette defines the Campbeltown coastline.

  Kate began by creating a new collection of garments and accessories and, alongside this balanced and varied range of Scottish knitwear, Kate and Tom tell the story of Davaar in words and pictures exploring the shifting relationship of land and water, the islands distinctive and immediately recognisable built structures, its interesting wartime experience, and the controversial painting and preservation of what is now its most famous feature.

  With Toms beautiful photography celebrating the landscape of south Kintyre, this is a book to be inspired by, and to think with, as well as to knit from.

  Its time to cast on, and to set forth for Davaar. . .

• Paperback: 112 pages

  Dimensions: 25 x 21 x 1 cm

  Publisher: Kate Davies Designs

• My name is Kate Davies. I live by Scotlands West Highland Way where I love writing, knitting walking, and swimming in the wonderful landscapes that surround me. I find that each of these activities has a creative and a critical dimension and the best of possible worlds is one in which I productively combine them all.

  Knitting is one of my greatest loves, and in 2010 (when a stroke at the age of 36 ended my academic career) I began Kate Davies Designs (KDD) creating digital patterns for hand knitters. The business lent me a platform to combine my skills in research, writing and design, and rapidly grew into a small publishing company through which I began to produce my own books.InColours of Shetland (2012), Yokes (2014),Buachaille: At Home in The Highlands (2015), The Book of Haps (2016), Shetland Oo (2016), Inspired by Islay(2017),Happit (2017), West Highland Way (2018) Shore (2018) and Milarrochy Heids (2018) I bring my passions for historical writing and practical creativity together. Nothing makes me happier than seeing knitters all over the world enjoying my books and making and wearing my designs.

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Davaar

by Kate Davies

This collection of 10 designs, inspired by a unique and inspirational tidal landscape, is made even richer by the inclusion of essays and photographs (by Tom Barr) that celebrate the island of Davaar and its stories. Alongside Kate’s designs, which explore the balanced and varied range of Scottish knitwear, you’ll find words and pictures that plumb the shifting relationship of land and water, the islands distinctive built structures, its wartime experience, and the controversial preservation of what its most famous feature. This is a book to be inspired by, and to think with, as well as to knit from.