Tartan
Dublin Core
Title
Tartan
Subject
Intangible Heritage
Description
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.
Creator
Scottish weaver
Source
wordlheritage2022
Date
1830 till now
Contributor
yuqi2022
Language
English
Type
Physical Object
Identifier
464
Date Submitted
25/04/2022
References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartan
Extent
cm x cm x cm
Medium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartan
Spatial Coverage
current,56.66117983704069,-4.300460815429688;
Europeana
Europeana Type
TEXT
Physical Object Item Type Metadata
Prim Media
650
Material
Wool, threads
Collection
Citation
Scottish weaver, “Tartan,” STAGE, accessed December 13, 2025, https://stage.openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/items/show/742.
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