Tartan is an enormously popular pattern in modern fashion. Beginning as Highland dress; it was originally peculiar to certain areas of Scotland; but is now generally accepted as its national costume: what was once ordinary working clothing of a distinctive local style has been formalised into a ceremonial dress; with tartans once woven according to the fancy of those who wore them becoming fixed with certain 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.
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