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HOW elegiac, and frankly typical, that the first depicted tartan from ancient times should feature on a loser. The conquered Caledonian has his hands bound behind his back and is about to find ...
Alex Salmond charged the taxpayer more than £250 for a pair of tartan trews before waging an extraordinary campaign to keep secret his failure to refund the public purse, the Telegraph can ...
TREWS. TREWS comes from the Gaelic triubhas and is defined in the Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) as: “A close-fitting pair of trousers, generally of a tartan pattern, with the legs ...
Tartan is known the world over to be part of the national dress of Scotland,the kilt - the history of which goes hand in hand. It is a material that has been woven from many colours, originally as ...
Now, The Grant 1714 has been added to the Scottish Register of Tartans and produced by Lochcarron of Scotland, with “part of our history” protected following the project, which was led by Lord ...
Remnants of a Roman statue in North Africa could be the "first-ever depiction of tartan", according to a BBC Scotland documentary.
Here are the key dates in Alex Salmond's seven-month battle over his taxpayer-funded purchase of some tartan trousers: Alex Salmond refunded the taxpayer for his tartan trews only after it emerged ...
A lost and “extremely rare” tartan worn more than 300 years ago has been saved - and woven once again. The Grant 1714 is considered one of the oldest tartans in Scotland.