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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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A piece of fabric discovered in a bog in the Scottish Highlands might be the oldest traditional tartan ever found, new research suggests. The piece of material could be up to 500 years old ...