Product tabs
Handywoman
Paralysed by a stroke at the age of 36, Kate Davies' world turned upside-down. Forced to change direction, Kate took a radical new creative path. This book tells her story.
This is not a book about Kate's triumph over adversity. Rather, it is her account of the ordinary activities and everyday objects that disability made her see differently. From braiding hair for the first time to learning how to knit again; from the lessons of a working-class creative childhood to the support of the contemporary craft community; from the transformative effects of good design to developing a new identity as a disabled walker; in this engaging series of essays, Kate describes how the experience of brain injury allowed her to build a new kind of handmade life. Part memoir, part personal celebration of the power of making, in Handywoman Kate reclaims disability as in itself a form of practical creativity.
Kate Davies is an award-winning knitwear designer and author writing on many topics from disability and design to textile history and women’s history.
Find out more about Handywoman, and browse the book's image galleries here.
You may also like
Schiehallion gift sampler - 8 shades
View details
Iluminated Knits
Iluminated Knits
View details
Ootlier: Blues out West
Ootlier: Blues out West
View details
Bieldy (kit or download)
Bieldy (kit or download)
View details
Warm Hands
Warm Hands
View details
Loch Lomond and the Trossachs
Loch Lomond and the Trossachs
View details
Sheep shade trivet
Sheep shade trivet
View details
SARK Postcard Pack
SARK Postcard Pack
View details
SARK
SARK
View details
Oban and North Argyll
Oban and North Argyll
View details
Starkin (kit or download)
Starkin (kit or download)
View details
The Outer Hebrides
The Outer Hebrides
View details
Coracle (blue dusk)
Coracle (blue dusk)
View details
Bluestockings
Bluestockings
View details
Gartness (tarbet)
Gartness (tarbet)
View details
Tomorrow’s Kitchen
Tomorrow’s Kitchen
View details
Buachaille: At Home in the Highlands
Buachaille: At Home in the Highlands
View details
Quhirl (kit or download)
Quhirl (kit or download)
View details
Kokkeluri (kit or download)
Kokkeluri (kit or download)
View details