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Scottish Tartans Authority

Textile Restoration / Tartan

25 January 2024

3 minutes

Designer Emma Wilkinson and Scottish Tartans Authority expert Peter E Macdonald with the original and recreation.

Designer and Historian Recreate 400-year-old Tartan Discovered in a Peat Bog 40 Years Ago

Four decades after a piece of discovered tartan fabric was confirmed to be the oldest in the world, Scotland’s House of Edgar and a tartan historian have recreated it just as it was woven around 1500–1600.

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