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Glasgow 2026 has launched its tartan for next year's Commonwealth Games. The traditional Scottish fabric comes from designer ...
The tartan features blue, pink and purple colours against a steel grey base, inspired by the Scottish city's shipbuilding ...
Fashion designer Siobhan Mackenzie, whose creations have been sported by actor Alan Cumming and pop star Justin Bieber, has ...
A new tartan has been designed for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2026. The official tartan, designed by award-winning ...
AWARD-winning fashion designer Siobhan Mackenzie has created a bespoke tartan for the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games.
Tartan is updating its image in the 21st Century, with new patterns exploring issues around climate change, homelessness – and World War Two dive bombers, writes Norman Miller.
Tartan is known to have been worn in Scotland since at least the third century A.D., yet its precise origins are shrouded in mystery. Unlike tweed, tartan ...
Tartan, contemporary or classic, also has its celebrity fans. Image. The Scottish actor Alan Cumming in the TV reality show “The Traitors.” “I feel anyone can wear a tartan and they are ...
Dye analysis and radiocarbon testing suggests a fragment of tartan measuring 55-by-43 centimetres dates back the period between 1500 and 1600. It will go on display as part of the Victoria and ...
This, they said, makes it the oldest “true tartan” specimen in Scotland. Specialists could find no similarity with any known clan tartans, which were developed in the early 19th century.