A collaboration between two artists and a museum in the Netherlands has brought poetry to the catwalk.
Stitched and Spoken features lace sensor dresses that speak when touched.
The dresses are to be modelled and exhibited at StAnza: Scotland’s International Poetry Festival in St Andrews from March 6 -10.
The dresses are part of the Lace Sensor Project, a collaboration between artists Anja Hertenberger and Meg Grant, working with the Museum de Kantfabriek in Limburg.
Each dress is embroidered with a different poem, sourced from an antique embroidery sampler. The poems correspond to a gesture which triggers a recording of the poem, played through tiny speakers crocheted into each dress.
The sensors are created from custom-made conductive lace. The harder they are pressed, the louder the poem will play.