![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The tech world has also embraced tartan, Ms. Among the hundreds of items: tartan toilet paper, a tartan guitar and a tartan-upholstered Hillman Imp, a car first produced in the 1960s. That is evident in items that form part of what the museum calls the People’s Tartan, comprising “donated pieces that are the sorts of objects that generally don’t end up in museums, everyday things people have in their homes or keep in their attics but with personal meanings,” Ms. “Almost anything you can think of, tartan has been transferred onto it.” The Dundee exhibition also shows how tartan is used across the world and on “a multitude of surfaces, whether that’s textiles, plastic, glass, metal,” said Ms. Tartan as a pattern has touched more than just fabric. You’re thinking about the idea of touch.” And, you know, there’s always a form of sensuality with it as well. In addition, she said, “You’re always thinking about where the thread travels through the cloth and how that creates a functionality. Each warp or group of threads that you put on is a new experience.” “But I think there’s infinite possibility as a design and art and craft form. And there’s no instant gratification with weaving,” she said. “I’m not a natural weaver in that I’m an impatient person. Repeatedly moving the shuttle back and forth to capture threads could get boring. I’m always looking for ways, technically, to kind of get ’round this grid shape. When it comes to a textile stereotype like a tartan, she said, “it’s about trying to push the parameters on the geometry of the loom. But once I’ve kind of got into the discipline of it, I then wanted to break out of it.” ![]() And as a person who’s not very precise, when I first started doing it, it was the thing that contained all that chaos for me, which was really good. “Weaving a check or a tartan, you’re working to very strict guidelines. “I think I’ve probably made a career of trying to explode the grid,” she said. Behind them will be a textile he calls “Blood Line,” made of antique cotton and linen with a large hand-embroidered check pattern. One designer who unravels and reconstructs such cultural histories and identities is Olubiyi Thomas, 36.īorn in Nigeria and raised in Glasgow, he produced a work for “Tartan” called “Intersectional Family,” using ecru-colored mannequins of a mother, father and child wearing kilts, traditional West African headgear and copper masks. Yet tartan remains popular, he noted, “because of its unique history, which means it is worn by radical and conservatives alike, from royalty to punks, provides an instant ‘tribal’ affinity with other tartan wearers, can be worn by all sexes and genders, and is visually stunning.” “It is possibly derived from the Gaelic tarsainn meaning across, the French tiretaine or tertaine, or the Spanish tiritana, all referring to woolen checked woven textiles,” Professor Faiers wrote. Tartan’s origins remain elusive - even of the word itself. The author, who also served as a consultant curator for the Dundee show, said by email that he hoped visitors would understand “that tartan is so much more than just a ‘Scottish’ textile. Serving as a sort of catalog for the exhibition is the book “Tartan” (2022 edition, Bloomsbury) by Jonathan Faiers, 63, professor of fashion thinking at the University of Southampton in southern England. Maxwell said, “because, as far as we know, it’s the only suit that still survives that was worn by two kings.” “It’s known as the suit of the two kings,” Ms. An example cited by the curators was a red and black tartan suit made for King George V in 1897 and later worn in the United States by his son Edward VIII. It also has been used by politicians, the military and royalty as a form of soft power. A High-Profile Arrest: Peter Murrell, a longtime official of the Scottish National Party and the husband of Nicola Sturgeon, who recently resigned as Scotland’s first minister, was detained by the police over the handling of party donations.Brexit hasn’t halted exports, but the path from sea to stovetop is fraught with new obstacles. Seafood Exports: British seafood is prized in France and Spain far more than at home.In the process, he is proving to be ruthless, political observers say. Labour Party: Keir Starmer, the leader of Britain’s opposition, is reshaping the party with the goal of making it more electable.Grand National Steeplechase: Millions of people around the world who seldom give a thought to horses make an exception for Britain’s most popular and unpredictable race. ![]()
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