About

Quickthorn Ltd is the brainchild of Katy Bevan aka @thecrafter_uk
Previously at the Crafts Council, Katy is an independent  writer and educator with a specialism in craft, running workshops in darning, crochet and knitting. She writes for textile and craft magazines such as Selvedge and blogs at The Crafter, mostly to be found knitting in the South West of England.
The first Quickthorn title was the bestselling Darning: Repair, Make, Mend, by Japanese crafter and fashion designer Hikaru Noguchi, published while working at Hawthorn Press. Next on the Quickthorn list in 2020 was Small Steps to Less Waste: Stories to Inspire Change, a collaborative project with local contributors from Repair Cafés to Gloucestershire University’s Editorial Photography course. Royalties for the book go back to Action on Plastic, a local charity set up by the author, Claudi Williams.

The Quickthorn list continued independently from 2022, with new titles supporting personal resilience, When Words are not Enough: Creative responses to grief, by Jane Harris and Jimmy Edmonds, Finding Quiet Strength: Emotional intelligence, embodied awareness, by Judith Kleinman, a project that grew out of lockdown.

Next was Intelligent Hands: Why Making is a Skill for life, written by Katy Bevan with interviews by Charlotte Abrahams. Then Celia Pym’s On Mending: Stories of Damage and Repair and Beyond Darning, the next bestseller from darner Hikaru Noguchi. Followed closely by Rag Manifesto, the third book with Rachael Matthews, Kate Fletcher’s Almanac and Connecting Threads by embroiderer Lynn Setterington. in 2025 there will be new books about The Red Dress, available to preorder now, Earth Fire Iron, about Alan Evans and the artist blacksmiths and a new books from both Celia Pym and Hikaru Noguchi, so watch this space.