Katie Cotmarsh Knitwear

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Katie's craft practice is founded upon the intention to create beautiful heritage knitwear, that plays an integral role in regenerating the landscape and supporting nature recovery. Each piece she makes is a creative expression of her life spent working the land, honouring the balance of nature and the role of farming in our countryside.

On our organic farm, she grows all the fibre for her knitwear from our flock of over 300 native breed sheep - grown, spun and finished within 130 miles. She has also started cultivating her own colour in our botanical dye garden, allowing her to work with a natural palette rooted in our landscape.

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Her journey with our flock's wool started with a desire to give our clothes the kind of traceability we are looking for with our food. The more she learnt about the environmental and social tragedies occurring all along the fashion supply chain, the more important it became for her knitwear to stand for a new way of producing clothes. One that honoured the process of making, elevated the experience of natural fibres and which had an aspirational quality that meant each piece would be treasured.

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She makes each piece in her studio, which sits in the farmhouse attic overlooking the dye garden and our farm beyond. She uses a hand-powered knitting machine with the no-waste process of fully fashioning, so each piece is knitted separately and sewn together by hand. Every piece is distinctive in design, offering bold patterns and natural colours rooted in the landscape.

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You can read more at www.katiecotmarsh.co.uk

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