Autumn/Holiday 2009: Scottish Tartan Autumn/Holiday 2009: Scottish Tartan CollectionCollection

The Scottish Tartan Collection combines fashionable appeal with classic style ideal for skirts and traditional ladies trousers and jackets. Traditionally woven of wool with a dense and pliable 2x2-twill weave in many colors and patterns, the modern interpretation of the tartan allows for variety

of design, weave, and color layout.

“Plaid” is Gaelic for “wrap” and is how most of the world thinks of tartan, identifiably Scotland’s national dress. The skilled craft of tartan weaving evolved in the Scottish Highlands at a time when

it was isolated by its poverty and remoteness from the centers of light in Southern Europe. The original plaid was a large garment that wrapped around the upper body and provided shelter and

warmth while outdoors. The art of weaving provides a vehicle of thought and imagination… communicating the origin of world cultures. Thousands of tartan patterns exist, each representing

distinct Scottish clans and families.