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.

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.

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 ...

The Bully Tartan, which celebrates the university’s beloved live mascot, is registered officially with the Scottish Register of Tartans, ... Maroons and Bulldogs—while small white and light grey ...

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 ...

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represent the sum of the digits in the year the act was implemented, 1563, and the sum of the digits of the year it was repealed, 1736.

There are thousands of officially registered Scottish tartan designs, but only one is dedicated to the “witches” of Scotland.Certified earlier this month, the tricolor pattern is intended as a ...