Saturday, June 9, 2012

Tartans


This photo from the Bellingham Highland Games shows a few of the many tartan patterns. Fun fact: Although we now think of tartans as belonging to a specific clan, or family, historically tartan patterns were actually regional because the weavers in a given area would have the same dye sources to work with. It's only relatively recently that we assigned certain tartans to each clan in order to differentiate them.

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