Scottish National Dress & Tartan
By Stuart Reid
Tartan is an enormously popular pattern in modern fashion but it has roots deep in Scotland's past. The wearing of patterned philabegs and kilts was originally peculiar to the Highlands, but over time these local styles were formalised into ceremonial and military costumes. Tartans which were once woven according to the fancy of those who wore them have become fixed with particular patterns prescribed for different families, areas or institutions. this process was not, as is popularly thought, a phenomenon begun by the romantic novels of Sir Walter Scott, but began long before as a reaction to the union with England in 1707. This book traces not only the early stages of that evolution, but the process by which the various tartans became icons of Scottish identity.
Stuart Reid was a professional soldier-turned-writer and his main focus of interest is in the British armies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, about which he has written several books. His ancestors fought at Culloden, Bunker Hill and even in the Texas Revolution, and he is the son of a kilt-maker.
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Scottish National Dress & Tartan
By Stuart Reid
Tartan is an enormously popular pattern in modern fashion but it has roots deep in Scotland's past. The wearing of patterned philabegs and kilts was originally peculiar to the Highlands, but over time these local styles were formalised into ceremonial and military costumes. Tartans which were once woven according to the fancy of those who wore them have become fixed with particular patterns prescribed for different families, areas or institutions. this process was not, as is popularly thought, a phenomenon begun by the romantic novels of Sir Walter Scott, but began long before as a reaction to the union with England in 1707. This book traces not only the early stages of that evolution, but the process by which the various tartans became icons of Scottish identity.
Stuart Reid was a professional soldier-turned-writer and his main focus of interest is in the British armies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, about which he has written several books. His ancestors fought at Culloden, Bunker Hill and even in the Texas Revolution, and he is the son of a kilt-maker.
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By Stuart Reid
Tartan is an enormously popular pattern in modern fashion but it has roots deep in Scotland's past. The wearing of patterned philabegs and kilts was originally peculiar to the Highlands, but over time these local styles were formalised into ceremonial and military costumes. Tartans which were once woven according to the fancy of those who wore them have become fixed with particular patterns prescribed for different families, areas or institutions. this process was not, as is popularly thought, a phenomenon begun by the romantic novels of Sir Walter Scott, but began long before as a reaction to the union with England in 1707. This book traces not only the early stages of that evolution, but the process by which the various tartans became icons of Scottish identity.
Stuart Reid was a professional soldier-turned-writer and his main focus of interest is in the British armies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, about which he has written several books. His ancestors fought at Culloden, Bunker Hill and even in the Texas Revolution, and he is the son of a kilt-maker.
