Movable Cultural Heritage,Intangible Heritage
Tartan is a woven cloth consists of horizontal and vertical bands in various colours. Weaving tartan is a craft that requires concentration, great timing and counting. The digital preservation includes tartan brand’s youtube channel about stories behind making tartan, artifacts in the museum, famous tartan fabric shops, and several archive websites that document the types of tartan. Besides the general exhibits or archival collection of textile histories in the National Museum of Scotland and the National Library of Scotland, The Scottish Tartans Museum focus on the history and development of tartan and the kilt, with over 500 samples of tartan. Visitors can view the exhibits online and search according to name or type. Fabric shops including Robert Noble, DC Dalgliesh, Ingles Buchan and Lochcarron not only sell the cloth, but also gives distinctive recording about tartan. The Scottish register of Tartan allows general public to register their designed tartan which details including the read count, an image and a proposed tartan name. User can search, compare and link with other Scottish designers through the website. Other online archive and search engines includes ‘House of Tartan’ and CLAN by Scotweb. There are online tartan generators such as ‘tartanMaker’ to quickly design own tartan, to create fun.