The Red Dress: Conversations in Stitch tells the deeper story of The Red Dress, the embroidered garment at the centre of Kirstie Macleod's project, and of the embroiderers who worked on it.
Alongside Kirstie's own story, essays by people involved in the wider project take up the questions the dress raises for its audiences: empowerment, finding a voice, feminism, community and healing trauma. Published May 2025, 122 pages, 182 x 256 mm.
Choose the paperback, or the limited edition hardback in its own dark cover.
The Red Dress: Conversations in Stitch tells the deeper story of The Red Dress, the embroidered garment at the centre of Kirstie Macleod's project, and of the embroiderers who worked on it.
Alongside Kirstie's own story, essays by people involved in the wider project take up the questions the dress raises for its audiences: empowerment, finding a voice, feminism, community and healing trauma. Published May 2025, 122 pages, 182 x 256 mm.
Choose the paperback, or the limited edition hardback in its own dark cover.

Katy Bevan publishes books about making from Stroud: on darning and mending, rag rugs, stitched social history and an artist blacksmith who changed his craft. Every title is printed in the UK in a small run, on recycled or FSC-certified paper, with no plastic on the cover.