Textile designers and tartan experts have banded together to recreate the oldest piece of Scottish tartan for modern ... would probably have been worn as a shawl or an upper body wrap.

Our readers chose the tartan that was eventually registered [with the Scottish Register of Tartans] and made into kippot, scarves and ties — it’s a beautiful tartan.” The fabric is comprised ...

With his usual cogency, Iain A D Mann argues the case for fiscal autonomy for Scotland (Letters ... I invented the notion of the "tartan shawl" effect, my thesis being that the better the ...

The journey of tartan begins in the 8th century BC when it first emerged as a symbol of power and pride among the Scottish ...

in everything from shawls to carpeting, which rapidly spread to the rest of the royal family). Once Victoria visited Scotland for the first time in 1842, she started a tartan craze — and a ...