A Scottish tartan historian is on the hunt for old blankets, kilts or pieces of fabric that are key to unlocking history. Peter Eslea MacDonald has a passion for handwoven, checkered fabrics ...

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 ...

Peter MacDonald, Head of Research & Collections at The Scottish Tartans Authority, examines a common claim that tartan was banned following the doomed 1745 Jacobite Rising. One of the widely ...

John McLeish (left) and Peter MacDonald (right), head of research and collections, of The Scottish Tartans Authority, brought the tartan to curator James Wylie (middle) to be exhibited at V&A Dundee.

"Although we can theorize about the Glen Affric tartan," Peter MacDonald, head of research and collections at the Scottish Tartans Authority, said in a statement, "we don't know who owned it." ...

A Scottish tartan historian is on the hunt for old blankets, kilts or pieces of fabric that are key to unlocking history. Peter Eslea MacDonald has a passion for handwoven, checkered fabrics, and he ...