This kilt is a prototype created from curtain remnants, as a collaboration with Dr Lynne Hocking-Mennie, geneticist and hand-weaver at LynnesLoom, whose data-driven research work sits at the intersection of art and science. Our project explores how genetics could determine the design of a kilt, using a commercially available ancestry test to reveal the ethnic proportions of the wearers biological makeup. The genetic data is then represented in the size, number and proportions of the wearers pleats to bring a scientific interpretation to this heritage craft.
The next stage sees Lynne own genetics embedded into her own hand woven cloth for the making of her kilt.
