Reviving a lost cloth on the remotest inhabited island of Scotland

My St Kilda Tweed Project is an attempt to recreate, as faithfully as possible, the tweed once woven on the island of St Kilda — a cloth that has not been made there since around 1930.

St Kilda lies far out in the North Atlantic, west of the Outer Hebrides. Its isolation shaped every aspect of life on the island, including the cloth its inhabitants wove from their own sheep. That tweed was practical, robust, and quietly beautiful — made to withstand one of the harshest environments in Europe.

In 2027, with the permission of the National Trust for Scotland, I will travel to St Kilda to weave tweed on the island once again, using historically appropriate materials, methods, and equipment. This will be the first time St Kilda tweed has been woven there in nearly a century.

This website documents the research, preparation, and journey leading up to that moment — and the weaving itself.