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. More resonances ...

A scrap of weathered fabric, discovered four decades ago in a peat bog, is the world’s oldest piece of tartan, with new analysis determining it dates to the 16th century. The textile was ...

Discovered in a bog in Glen Affric, the tartan is now on view at V&A Dundee. Alan Richardson Pix-AR New research suggests a piece of fabric found in the Scottish Highlands in the early 1980s is ...

Textile designers and tartan experts have banded together to ... Using carbon dating, scientists discovered that the “Glen Affric” fabric, uncovered in a peat bog in the Highlands during ...

The fabric, discovered in a peat bog in Glen Affric in the Scottish Highlands, is thought to date back to the 1500s - and will go on show at the V&A Dundee from 1 April. It’s official - the ...

The Glen Affric tartan was discovered in a peat bog in the Scottish Highlands in the 1980s. After conducting radiocarbon testing on the fabric, researchers with the nonprofit Scottish Tartans ...

The Glen Affric tartan will be exhibited for the first time at V&A Dundee's Tartan exhibition from 1 April A scrap of fabric found in a Highland peat bog 40 years ago is likely to be the oldest ...

Now, the pattern has been recreated for the modern wardrobe by tartan fabric creator and weaver House of Edgar. Based on the dye analysis and pattern extraction from the original material ...