TARTAN has been worn in parts of Scotland for hundreds of years and is one of our biggest cultural exports. There are currently thousands of these patterns around the globe with many of them being ...
MOBILE, Alabama - After Katie Gee, a history teacher from New York state, retired to the Gulf Coast a few years ago, she began to look for a church. Although she had grown up Presbyterian, she had not ...
John McLeish, left, and Peter MacDonald, right, of the Scottish Tartans Authority, examine the Glen Affric tartan — Scotland's oldest-known true tartan — with James Wylie, a curator at the Victoria ...
The annual celebration of Scottish heritage will reach its 25th anniversary in New York City this year, but if you’re ‘kilt-y’ of charge of not knowing about Tartan Week then here’s what you should ...
As a Scot, the summer of 2009 was quite hectic for me. I had just passed my Viva [oral exam] at the University of Glasgow and had been informed of my impending summer PhD graduation. I was also an ...
MANY clan tartans worn proudly by Scots are not the ancient traditional colours of their ancestors but a stroke of marketing genius by two 19th-century English brothers, according to experts. Scots ...
The Glen Affric tartan, which is thought to date to between 1500 and 1600, will go on display at V&A Dundee next month. John McLeish and Peter MacDonald, of the Scottish Tartan’s Authority and James ...
A scrap of plaid textile dating back more than 500 years is Scotland's oldest tartan, scientists have revealed Discovered in a peat bog in Glen Affric in the Scottish Highlands, the faded fabric ...
The first baby Scotland welcomed in 2023 is the star of a sweet photoshoot featuring his clan tartan. Shauna Moodie and Demetre Moffat, both 25, welcomed Dominic Moffat just six minutes into the new ...