Tartan is having a fling this autumn. Girls love it in scarves, skirts, shirts and handbags. After storming down the catwalk it has walked right into the high street homeware shops in the shape of ...

Contemporary can be cosy – plaid doesn’t mean staid – as the popularity of tartan blankets and scarves from an up and coming brand is proving Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, ...

A fortress originally built to suppress Highland clans and enforce rules preventing clansmen from wearing tartan could become a hub for production of Scotland's famous cloth. Fort George was ...

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There are few elements of ethnic dress that have become more embedded in modern, mainstream fashion than the Scottish tartan. These tartans may feature authentic clan patterns and colors, or they may ...

Dozens of spools of various types of yarns colorfully line the back of the weaving room at the Opportunity House. Bruce Ball sits at his eight-harness loom, using his hands and feet to operate it as ...

A disused farm steading would be converted into the mill under plans to be submitted to Highland Council Five architectural technology students have come up with the winning design for a planned new ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One of my earliest childhood memories is wrapping myself in a piece of scratchy wool in rich midnight blue and ...

IT is an island which historically had a Macleod as its chief. But centuries on, many on Raasay have no connection to any clan – and now moves are afoot to develop an island tartan to represent those ...

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