Touch Knit is the brand name for Glasgow-based Alice Meikle’s knitted garments. Alice grew up in Moray, and studied photography first in Edinburgh and then Glasgow. A multi- hyphenate talent, she took up knitting during lockdown while recovering from a broken ankle and soon found that working with her hands to produce physical objects brought mental, physical and creative stimulation simultaneously.

Through Touch Knit, Alice gives form to her values, sustainable material use and ethical production, practising slow fashion principles to create archetypal knitwear with individual character. These are garments to be used every day, of a quality that allows them to be cherished for a lifetime. Today, Alice combines Touch Knit with her photography, bringing her singularly Scottish wit and whimsy to life in images and objects that tickle and delight in equal measure.

What value does craft have in daily life?

Making things makes us deeply happy and using things which have been made locally is the
future.

What does Scottishness mean to you?

On a personal level, I feel very connected to Scottish landscape and nature. Experiencing it in moments of quiet alone or around a fire on the beach with friends.

In a wider sense, we like to think of Scotland as being a progressive, fair and equal place to live. But Scotland will be what we make it. I really hope that we can make it that.

Times when I’ve recently felt Scottishness the most have interestingly all been at gigs: 

Seeing Young Fathers perform their new album Heavy Heavy at the O2 Academy.

Dancing to the fiddle at Celtic Connections.

The corner shops on Sauchiehall Street being sold out of Buckfast immediately after The Mary Wallopers gig at The Garage.