Textile designers and tartan experts have banded together to recreate the oldest piece of Scottish tartan for modern production, allowing fans of the famed plaid to wear a piece of history.

French fashion house Christian Dior paid homage to Scotland at a catwalk show in a Perthshire castle, with tartan designs and thistle motifs adorning its cruise 2025 collection.

For many people, a bright bolt of tartan epitomizes Scotland, conjuring misty, heather-filled glens and bagpipers in Highland dress.But for Scots, the colorful pattern adorning kilts and bonnets ...

The small piece of fabric may have been dyed in the days of Mary Queen of Scots before landing in a Scottish bog. Alan Richardson Pix-AR.co.uk There might not be anything more iconic in Scotland ...

Selena Gomez’s tartan mini skirt co-ord and sheer tights combo is perfect for cosy season The Rare Beauty founder made a bold statement in a Schiaparelli twinset while in London over the weekend.

The tartan’s thinner lines have either 15 or 17 threads, which represent the sum of the digits in the year the act was implemented, 1563, and the sum of the digits of the year it was repealed, 1736.

Vivienne Westwood’s use of tartan — both in her own designs and in styling the Sex Pistols — channeled the pattern’s rebellious roots into a direct challenge of the establishment. Drawing on tartan’s ...