A scrap of weathered fabric, discovered four decades ago in a peat bog, is the world’s oldest piece of tartan, with new analysis determining it dates to the 16th century. The textile was found in the ...

Today, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are officially opening the V&A Dundee, Scotland's first design museum. While there, the Earl and Countess of Strathearn, as they are known in the country, will ...

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Jonathan Faiers is the author of Tartan, the book which was the inspiration for the V&A Dundee exhibition. He's also one of the curators of the exhibition. “Oldest”, “rarest”, “most celebrated” … ...

Scotland has done a bang-up job of modernizing its image away from just Highland cows and haggis; just look at Glasgow’s design renaissance, or Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners’s striking new home for ...

An international centre of design, V&A Dundee presents the brilliance of Scottish creativity and the best of design from around the world. The first ever dedicated design museum in Scotland and the ...

Sally Foster has received/is receiving funding from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Historic Environment Scotland and AHRC for various research projects. Glowing from enthusiastic reviews and ...

V&A Dundee, Scotland’s first design museum, stretches over the River Tay, its corner protruding like the bow of a boat. It also serves as the first outpost of London’s famed V&A, or Victoria and ...

Tartan may well be “the most categorised textile on Earth”, said Cal Revely-Calder in The Daily Telegraph. There are more than 11,000 recognised varieties of this grid of “geometric patterns of ...

In 1844 the Scottish city of Dundee eagerly anticipated its first royal visit in almost two centuries. Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert’s stay was a resounding success and to mark the ...

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