The work presented celebrates traditional tartan patterns
and their design parameters, as well as the numerous technological
achievements in woven textiles. The designers
propose a woven textile (as applied in the garment presented)
with the capability to illuminate threads in both warp
and weft directions. The work described investigates the
creation of garments for day-to-day use, which is a usecase
probably never considered when developing off-theshelf
electronic components. In developing a new tartan
pattern and fabrication technique, the authors respond to
the lack of purpose-made electronic components by choosing
to evolve tradition into technology. Manufacturing techniques
and components for the proposed textile have been
carefully considered, researched, and contrasted to previous
work by the authors, as well as recent trends in the field
of wearable technology. The garment is a component of a
tartan pattern generating system which searches the space
of all registered tartans in order to find relevant, but yet unregistered
tartan color and thread count combinations from
a variety of inputs either embedded on the dress, or from a
mobile phone.