All You Need to Know About the History of Tartan in 15 Minutes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- Tartan is iconically Scottish, but what's its history? Scottish history tour guide, Bruce Fummey, talks to tartan historian Peter MacDonald at the V&A exibition in Dundee
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Bruce just to a pain, all the time I lived in Edinburgh I pronounced the palace Holy Rood witch is how is spelled and not Hollyrood, you must know story of how Abby was founded.
Can we try to have the name of place pronounced as should be .
We had enough trouble with Hollywood when we think of Brave hart.
Soar Alba
Dude... can you let the expert talk 10 facking seconds without interrupting him? geez
@@TheChzoronzon Nope
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Shame on you, so big and so childish
Ma mate was getting married in a kilt, I asked him "what's the tartan" , "aw she's just wearing a white dress" says he.....
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...I rather hope that was when you hit him.
2024. A mixed dude with dreads and the thickest Scottish accent is telling me about tarten. What a time to be alive.
I'm sitting here watching this in my pipe band kilt. Our band tartan is Holyrood. I'm in northern California getting ready to play my pipes at a Christmas season ceremony at a local cemetery. A ceremony to honor fallen military veterans.
Because yur Awesome like that 😊
So, might you be in the Holyrood Hills?
Thank you for that
About the Tartan in China, _I visited those_ as a kid. It was an ancient proto-European tribe that wandered out into the Gobi desert; their chieftain in his burial wears a pair of trousers, one of the oldest trousers in the world currently intact.
Because of the extreme dry conditions of the Gobi Desert, those tribesmen excavated were found in a state of natural mummification, their skin dehydrated on them and everything. On the chieftain you could still see the reddish color of his beard. Said my dad "they look Scottish!"
And then of course you got Atlas Silk with the Uighurs, which are like Tartan if it was more of a psychedelic rainbow.
All hair goes redish after death as the other tones are leached out. They weren't proto European, the latest DNA shows them to be mixed Chinese and Indian and siberian
@@lenabreijer1311Ah for real? That makes sense. Obviously I knew they weren't scottish-scottish but I thought their face structure looked more IndoEuropean than Oriental. Indian/ Siberian/ Chinese makes sense
Now I want to go to China and see that too!
@@julianndavis9415 wouldn't recommend it these days; it's a police state over there now especially around Xinjiang
This statement is false. Hair does not do that over time. Many mummified Blacks were found and they all continue to have black hair.
This is a myth and was debunked many years ago. People in that area DID have reddish, blonde and brown hair as well as black hair. @@lenabreijer1311
I'm glad Peter explained the mystery of tartan paint. This is the sort of knowledge that we all tune in for on a weekly basis. 😂
Thanks Bruce and Peter for another brilliant video.
Glad you enjoyed it
That Royal Company of Archers uniform is badass! Never knew such a thing existed, magnificent!
That is a beautiful museum.
Americans can become quite heated in discussing "family tartan". I was surprised to learn that the codification of tartan only dates from 1815! Some of my US brethren act as though their clan tartan dates back thousands of years.
I know. It's one of the things that makes us smile
Ah... ignorance is bliss!! And I'm an American! I'm of the "Nobragger" Clan!!! 😂
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Sometimes I think we just like to argue and try to "one up" each other. 🙄
Americans were the absolute worst tourists in Scotland.
Clan MacDonald here in Washington state West coast 🌹
I find it amazing that it is possible to do isotope analysis on wool that been buried in a peat bog for 400+ years! Science, eh?! 😍
"Of which more later..." Peter MacDonald knows who to keep his audience hooked. 👍
It is weird how recently many of our "ancient traditions" were created. The Victorians have a lot to answer for. 😄
Aye Peter was a star
I was rather surprised to see how prevalent tartan is in East Africa. In a lot of documentaries from the Ethiopian highlands you will see people clad in tartan, and the Masai of Kenya seem to wear quite a bit of tartan as well.
Top notch stuff as always
I thought Scottish brought tartan to Africa
As Bruce Fummey and Mr Mcdonald, the expert, already stated there are indigenous produced tartans from all over the world.
One Edinburgh Castle espanade, in Festival time, I saw a splendid Gurkha Pipe Band.
Also the smartest man I know is Maasai, from Kenya and has a degree from MIT.
@@xtramail4909 a glimpse of, before the bullets hit.
Probably indicative of scythian migration.
The earliest description of a Scot tartan is found in a 1503 manuscript....the 1503 MacIver. This tartan was the base for the first Campbell tartan, as all Campbell's had their origins in Clan Iver....and as such it is also the base for the Black Watch who were originally Campbells commissioned by the king.
Clan Iver!
My grandad was in the Black Watch during ww2
Great work, and I learned quite a bit I wasn't aware of. Thanks, Bruce!
I wear a Clan Shaw tartan sash with my Cherokee regalia as a nod to Dad's side of the family. Strangely enough, its white folks I get the most comments from about doing that. I tell them that in the early days, since most transported Scots weren't exactly warmly welcomed by English colonists, many of them went up into the Appalachians and settled near or among the various tribes living there, and frequently married in. A look at the rolls of the Cherokee and Muskoki tribes in particular looks almost like a roll call of the Clans because of this. Also, the children of these marriages were referred to as the Blessed Blend because of their extraordinary beauty, talent, and form, having inherited the best of both lineages. As I honor both sides of my ancestry, it just simply made sense.
A Cherokee artist (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma) named Martha Berry has used tartan to make several bandolier bags for both men's and women's regalia, embellished with traditional beadwork. They are stunning (and quite pricey, too).
Here’s a Canadian aspect funny true story. A FN friend of mine was giving flak to a woman about assimilation of FN designs in Canadian clothing. As my FN friend then related the story, the woman responded to her saying “well look at you wearing tartans and plaids isn’t that assimilation” to which my FN friend responded without any sense of the irony “so I’m not allowed to wear clothes now?” I was so dumbfounded when she related this story to me that I had nowhere to begin. The Celts and FN have come a long way together in Canada. In many ways both tribal cultures were well to have found each other; given what was coming down the tracks (so to speak). As to how I responded to my friend, I just let it go as I knew that her concept of the tribalism of the tartan wasn’t clear to her and it wasn’t her intention to downplay that. I should have maybe explained it to her. Later
This was a eye opening trip through tartan. I never knew the history was so deep. Thank you Peter for all your work and Bruce as always wonderful job
Glad you enjoyed it
ScotlandHistory...not a tartan...but I still have my Avoca Tweed jacket and cap...maybe time to let go...
@eamonnclabby7067
To us Americans the tartan is that most recognition part of Scottish historical and war. So don't feel negative about the comment that an American cares enough about another country to delve into tartans and kills and meanings of them all. And about the highland and lowland clearance
Those very clearance are what brought my coal mining great great grandfather to Virginia and into the Appalachian mount8to mine for coal
Thanks for that Bruce. It's always been funny to me seeing people on clan history FB pages arguing about "authentic" tartans etc when that family element is such a recent invention. There's also the Roman era "Falkirk Tartan" that was found with a horde of Roman coins years ago. There's not usually much mention of it.
Whilst Peter and I discussed it in the background he tells me that the GlenAfric was the first 'true tartan'
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Ah fair enough
Yes, the Falkirk tartan is not mentioned as much as it should be, because it's not as Peter described "true tartan" or asymmetrical, but it is still a tartan weave & even though the older tartans aren't asymmetrical they shouldn't be discounted by historians as not "true tartan" because tartan has been a part of Scotland's history all the way back to the picts & Roman occupied Britain. Roman writers wrote about the colorful checked patterns of the picts & celts. But just as the English wanted, which was why the dress act was written, now even the Scottish historians act like Tartan was meaningless & just an English invention...😂
I know wool is traditional, but I wish the manufacturers would notice the very large number of people with Scottish family names who live in warmer latitudes in the US, Australia, etc. My brother-in-law is a McLaughlin who lives on the US border with Mexico and suffers from the heat. Cotton tartans might not be strictly traditional, but I'm sure they would be popular. Also, I'm sure the improved opportunity to see men in kilts would be appreciated everywhere.
I guess they don't want to change traditional grade for the sake of modernality...?
@leslie4351 adding cotton to production is not "changing" tradition. That would be particularly silly since the whole idea of family tartans was made up in the 19th century. Adding a line of tartans in cotton increases their opportunity to sell products in more parts of the world. Would it improve my own opportunity to see men in kilts? Yes, yes, it would.
@@joanhuffman2166 There are lots of tartans available in poly-viscose that are both cheaper and cooler to wear . Also although not as good for kilt making 12 ounce wool would also not be as hot to wear .
@rickmoore3730 My brother-in-law almost had heat stroke wearing his kilt at the wedding in Spring in El Paso, Texas. We're on the same latitude as Tripoli Libya.
@@joanhuffman2166 I am in southern Ontario ,Canada . Even Virginia in summer is very hot / humid for me . The problem with light weight wool ( 12 ounce ) or light weight cotton is it won't hold pleats that well and will crease like crazy . I have one 14 ounce eight yard kilt that is good for summer here but the rest are 16 ounce kilts . Also for hotter weather a four yard kilt would be more suitable as there is no re -enforcing in the waist as with an eight yard kilt . Even here I tend to leave the eight yard kilts for the slightly cooler to cold weather . And remember , a kilt is only hot around the waist . It is pretty neutral for the rest of it . A four yard poly-viscose or wool kilt is the best way to go down there .
What a beautiful museum!!!
Indeed
I LOVE the design of the museum displays! The pattern of the beams and the display windows being a tartan design itself is just genius. Subtle, clever, elegant. Whoever designed this museum should have won an award, and I hope they did!
My understanding is that the oldest UK "Tartan" was discovered in an earthenware pot filled with silver coins, at the Antonine Wall in Falkirk, Scotland. This fragment, known as the Falkirk tartan or Falkirk sett, is currently the earliest check fragment found in the British Isles and dates back to Roman Britain times (around the 3rd century AD). It is actually more a tweed than a tartan in weaving style. This very plain check is available today as Northumbrian tartan which, as a descendant of Border Reiver clan, would be my personal choice. I particularly like that it's a historic and generic pattern and as such predates all the commercial tartanry of the 19th Century.
I was about to comment that. Tartan patterns are also found for on the ancient Bronze Age Celtic Hallstatt Culture in the Switzerland/Austria region, and are attested throughout ancient Gaul, Britain, and Ireland (as well as among the Balts, Slavs, and perhaps some Germanic peoples).
Sometimes I’m happy to fit the description of the American who doesn’t know anything except his family name tied to a fun video. Thank you Bruce for giving my wife and I something to be happy about. “A Gordon for me” singing was perfect. Thank you for keeping us humble while enabling us to reach back into a culture that we feel apart of. Bydand!
As an American who just discovered my 11th-9th great grandfathers were Campbells from Skipness, this was fascinating. Thank you.
why cant Scotland, Ireland and Wales have a TARTAN FLAG?
I always thought tartan’s history went back hundreds of years. Thank you for the video.
You're welcome
Nope. All marketing a false legend of family tartans
Really fascinating, as a sassenach I am actually entitled to wear my tartan and a kilt, a black and grey. The ancient Northumberland plaid. I plan to wear it at my wedding in January 2025, ready to repel any incursions from north of the wall!
Thanks for the programmes.
From nova scotia, I did highland dance for years as a kid. At some point my parents got my own kilt and wool socks, as well as a sash for the lilt and flora, done up in with our familys tartan for my competition dances. I still love those pieces from my childhood.
I hope you're coming to see my show in Halifax, New Glasgwo or Annapolis
Another great educational video, but one that leaves me with so many ?s this topic always has though. It is a true shame that after Culloden so much of our history was lost, because if there wasn't a real significance to tartan (like historians claim) then why ban it in the 1st place? I guess we wont ever really know... Till next time ❤️🏴
That's a good point. 🤔
It's always been my understanding that the plaid was coloured by the use of local plants. Mine's muted pink and yellow and tis beautiful 😊.
Thanks Bruce and Peter.
It's fascinating to see how vibrant they managed to make those early tartans, even although they were working with plant dyes.
True
The hard part is keeping it from fading, I'd have to imagine
Good stuff Bruce,
The history of Tartan is fascinating, many years ago The The Museum of Scottish Tartan in Comrie Perthshire had a piece of the Tartan Alan Bean took to the Moon, on loan.
It's said while he was there Alan Bean claimed the Moon for the MacBean Clan. Making the Moon, or at worst the Ocean of Storms Scottish.
I suspect that museum was run by Peter
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Quite possibly, we would have visited round about 1990. I have a picture of my middle son wearing a kilt they had there when he was about 8 years old.
I respect your ability to interject at appropriate times to ask questions, clarify, and demonstrate your engagement in the topic. It helped me digest the food of information much better and set the tone of the video as more conversational than something like a lecture. Your guide clearly had lots to share, and it's unfortunate the time was limited... Thank you both for the interesting introduction into tartans!
Who knows, maybe we'll get him back for a longer episode at some point
Yes! Maybe the guide will be allowed to finish his sentences next time without you interrupting to repeat what he just said.
@@chrise.321 Stop yer nonsense
that would be good.@@ScotlandHistoryTours
My mothers family (Clan Elliott) were exiled from Scotland to Jamaica hundreds of years ago. Thanks for sharing. I love learning and piecing together our history.
Haven't looked up the ancestor's tartan in a while. With the information in your video to go on as well, it doesn't show up earlier than in the Stuart's book.
A great watch as always 😊
Thank you! Very informative about the tartan!
Etymology:
Blend of Middle English tartaryn (“rich material”), from Middle French tartarin (“Tartar cloth”), and Middle French tiretaine (“cloth of mixed fibers”), from Old French tiret (“kind of cloth”), from tire (“oriental cloth of silk”), from Medieval Latin tyrius (“material from Tyre”), from Latin Tyrus (“Tyre”).
I would definitely visit the museum. I've been interested in tartans since the late 80s. The designs and history are so fascinating.
This is exactly why I subscribed. 😊
Yay! Thank you!
Clan Boyd here Have a great Christmas man
My Sharp Family history goes back to the Highlands of Scotland and may be connected to the Stewart or Cameron clan.. My first name is Cameron so my parents were proud of where we came from. BTW, My grandmother ran up the stairs until she was in her 80's, then she walked up. I take my inspiration from her and always take the stairs. Keeps me healthy.
Aye, I bet her TH-cam videos were nae guid though😂
My mother too (may she rest in peace), bounding up the stairs, two at a time, well into her seventies, then slowed down to one stair at a time in her eighties but still quite rapidly! Your comment brought me back to that funny memory...
I was just looking into the history of tartans jist a few days ago, and suddenly this! You must be readin my mind man!
I send faireies through your Alexa
He's the one in your phone, listening to your every word.
@@ScotlandHistoryToursTom Sleman writes a lot about them on haunted Wirral...on the Wirral Globe website
Man I wanna visit that museum!
thankyou for still remaining to be one of the only genuine content creators on this dying platform
Ah no, that sounds sad
Fascinating. Especially that the Bean tartan apparently went to the moon. That’s the clan of my Scots ancestors. I had a tie with that tartan. I’ll have to see if I’ve still got it.
What an interesting video with two really passionate Scots. I noticed the tartan telephone box (TARDIS?) at 10.46 and the dialogue on tartan paint was hilarious. Keep ‘em coming, Bruce and compliments of the season to you and yours 🌞
Thanks for that!
Just when we thought Bruce would wear a tartan for a video. Thank you for another excellent video Bruce.
Great video, it was interesting to see the couple of early tartan. I reenacted The 45 so i knew the no clan tartans until after the 45
Wonderful video Bruce . My turn to name drop . I bought a kilt from a site in Scotland that sells used highland wear . I saw a kilt ( much too large ) in Wilsons of Bannockburn colour palette and bought it . The tartan was woven by Peter MacDonald whom I had never heard of . When I told the kiltmaker in Vancouver who was going to rebuild the kilt that it was woven by Peter he was gob smacked . He ended up preserving as much of the material as he could because of that . I was chuffed having a kilt in the Wilsons colours but now knowing Peter was involved takes it to a whole different level .Cheers .
Brilliant
Thank you Bruce for the tour of this museum and the knowledge of Peter! He answered so many questions (and arguments! Ahem!) that I've had with folks over the years about what a tartan really is and who first started the fashion! This would include 'knowledgeable' people with degrees in this type of stuff over here across the pond! Informative and entertaining as always! Happy Christmas to you and yours!😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
I always enjoy your stores. Happy Christmas❤
Love the bit where you start up the stairs, look up and then head to the lift 😂 We are obviously the same age!
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MacDonald on both sides of my lineage. Clanranald on my mums side and MacDonald of the Isles on my dad's. Loved this video, great stuff as always Bruce!
Glad you enjoyed it!
My Uncle Archie RIP was a descendant of the McDonald's of Glencoe...apart from my Aunt, all of them have migrated around the world....cheers/ slainte...E...
My grandmother also, she absolutely loathed Campbells which seems rather negative but to her it was very important. She was born in the rain of Victoria, her father was a Pipe Major who fought in Sudan, the Boer war, and finally ran out of luck on the Somme in 1916, I have his obituary. He was 54.
Sorry I misspelt Reign, I am a poor speller
Another great video Bruce 🇨🇦 🏴
Just facinating. Who could have guessed that marketing played such a large part in 'the " fantasized Myth" of the Tartan. I had visions of the clan McDonald and McCleod proudly wearing their clan tartan up in the highlands of Scotland and that was one way of identifying themselves during battles....no other rival clan would dare wear the tartan of another clan......Big Sigh here....but that was just a romanticized version of the early life of a tartan. My brain has got to update my visions of how the early clanspeople of the Highlands dressed.!!! Thank you Bruce.
Sorry to burst the bubble
You and your TEAM are amazing! Thank you so much for all you do #believeitanditwillbe 🙏🏻♥️🕊️✨✨👑👑🎶♾️🌊🏝️☀️🌙🗺️
You are so welcome!
Hi there thank you for another awesome episode big fan
My mother’s mother were weavers of tartan way back when and my many times great grandad was a weaver and the Scandinavian side from mother’s father side were weavers
And I’m proud of not just my Scottish roots but also my weaving heritage
My 5th great granny was Lady Forbes who designed the Forbes tartan in 1780
Thanks to Peter who I bought the wool from yrs ago I recreated the 1780 Forbes tartan
as a university project and I still have it and love it
Fascinating look into tartan!
Fascinating Bruce - thank you!
Scottish history is interesting, but that man make it so much better!
You have to be interested by a man who loves a subject that much !
Keep up the good work, you've just gained a binge watcher subscriber!
Brilliant
That was a brilliant episode big fella. 👍🏻👍🏻
Great video!💪🏞🌠
Loved learning the tartan history. Had not ever heard history on tartans before.
Loved this!
... and remember a 'plaid' is a blanket, not the pattern!
Love this!! I follow the Tartan website too very informative vid now for the kilts Thankyou Bruce! ❤
Brilliant
@@ScotlandHistoryToursAnna from Ukraine ,sometimes wears something similar to a McDonald tartan...I,m such a nerd...😅😅😅😅
Thanks for a very informative episode.
Our pleasure!
Thanks for this one, Bruce! Excellent!
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for another fascinating video
Our pleasure!
My grandmother was a Gordon. I had no idea that there was an entire museum devoted to the Gordon name… wow!
That was absolutely fascinating. Thank you Bruce from far away and currently very soggy northern end of Queensland Australia after cyclone Jasper.
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I have several family tartans so this drew me in and imagine my surprise to see Hamish! Made me smile!
Ah Hamish😎
Thank you so much; this was wonderful.
Awesome as always! As an American obsessed with family history, I've always wondered why it seems we are more inclined to dig up our ancestry and their respective histories. Maybe we're not more inclined its just that I'm into it and have a bias. I don't know, just something that popped into my head. Anyways, again, great video!
Americans created their own identity when they moved to the New World; it's only natural many of us feel a need to reconnect and ground ourselves when our ancestors aren't buried right beneath us.
To me, the more I find out about my family's ancient history, the more it sounds like something my family would do. My mom's family was always British with some German stock, and traveled all the way from New England to Kentucky setting up missions and churches, but Benedict Arnold had a huge falling out with America when he threw them under the bus for his British connections, and he spent the rest of his life floating around in England not really welcome or respected by anyone and completely alienated; which 100% sounds like something my grandparents would have ended up pitfalling into.
Meanwhile all the American Wallaces have been hard-headed wannabe-intellectuals bravely putting up with rough work conditions while only _just barely_ getting along with their boss, until one gets fed up, burns all their bridges, and moves out further West, which is 100% my dad all over.
Right now back in NY area I know these NY natives who are very similar; hard-headed wannabe-intellectuals who always push for what they want despite the dirty jobs they work at and their persistent people-problems; sure enough, their grandma was a Wallace; a photo of one of my great-aunts is in their living room.
To a guy who grew up in Asia with family all over the world at this point, seeing that was mindblowing.
Thank you---I'll follow up the reference.
That was very interesting.
Love this!! The bit about China blew my mind. That's really something.
Thank you Bruce for a wonderfully educational video! I'd love to visit some day.
Outlander has made me a Scot lover!
Thanks for sharing 😊
SOOOOO interesting...
Really fascinating 👏 👌
My grandmothers name was “Ida Ellen Bell” a surname that has origins everywhere not just in Scotland but Ireland and France the biggest factor in the identity was Gaelic thanks again for sharing your incredible videos >^..^
This is so cool !
OMG I wish I could move to Scotland, just to hear people speaking with this beautiful accent all day long! 🥰
😂I'm sure the novelty would wear off soon enough
Husband and I and weavers and spinners respectively. We are learning how to weave tartan by hand. Trickier than it seems to have the same number of rows going across (weft) and going length wise (warp).
Maybe you could tell me: were the tartens woven in plain weave or twill? Another weaver here.
With the example of 6 pure colors in the tartan: If you had each of the 6 colors as its own pure color + every two pure color combination, that’s = 6 + (6 choose 2) = 6 + 6!/(2!4!) = 21.
He’s likely unintentionally double counting. To get 36, one would have to claim that (for example) blue crossed with red is different than red crossed with blue, = 2 different colors.
@4:10
Having done a little bit of weaving on a 4 harness loom, red over blue vs. blue over red would show differently. The top thread would be the one you see in the finished garment.
Passed you on the way back from Abernathy the day I think ?😂😂😂
Made my day 🏴💪🏻
Cheers for the vids Bruce 😎
I was away for clootie dumpling
Brilliant exhibition at the VnA in Dundee……..really interesting to learn of the connections with Tartan weave & Slavery…..also how Tartan was worn by some freed slaves as an act of rebellion…….as an auld Punk this resonated with me as I’ve always ‘claimed’ tartan as a sign of rebellion…….wear it with Pride 👍
Also after our visit to the exhibition me n the wifey made our way to the Taybridge bar tae pay homage tae the great Michael Marra/Frida Kahlo….& a few beers as well !
Lord Bruce! Fun and interesting! Stair climb alone worthy of $Thanks!
Ah thanks
My dad actually designed both of the Harkness tartans..... and we went to the mill where they were making it for approval when I was 10.....
Loved the switch to the elevator!
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fascinating stuff
I knew that clan tartans were made up, but I didn't know all the details. Thank you.
I'm Scottish Canadian, my father's last name is Bigley. He's operated the Highland games in Fergus, Ontario several times and I want to learn more about my family's clan and history but I just am *not* on good terms with my father at all. I would love to know if there's a way for me to learn more about my culture and history without having to go through him. I used to have our clan symbol and Tartan but suffered a house fire in 2009 and lost everything. You earned a new subscriber.
I have no knowledge to assist you but wish you good luck, keep looking and the family fire alight. Yours David.
Hi Bruce, Looking forward to your video dedicated to the connections between Scotland and Jamaica (hint, hint). My maternal grandmother was a Johnston. My Mum was 25% Scottish, while my sister is 39% Scottish. As a child my parents gave me a storybook about Robert the Bruce and the spider. Only lately, due to DNA analysis, do I realize the personal connection to that history. As a fellow Afro-Euro person, I thank you for what you do and say. Maybe I will get that Johnstone Tartan handkerchief.
Brilliant. Wow
Thanks!
The oldest woven cloth is 8000 years old.... From having a woven cloth with stripes it's a natural thing to do because if you have 2 colors you have fun with motifs, and tartan is the most unskilled pattern to weave on a loom. many Celts were wearing tartan for centuries, all the way to china in 3800 yrs ago.
I have heard that it's not just the colors but also the weaving pattern. When a friend wanted me to weave a strip of their family's tartan, it was not a plain weave of one thread over one thread, but rather one weft thread over 2 warp threads. Each time the weaver threw the weft, the warp thread would be moved over one thread, giving you a different pairing of threads. Drove me almost to drink!
Awesome!
Thank you! Cheers!
I’m late in late I’m late!! 6 hours late! 😂 super glad it’s Saturday. My entire tribe is sick with a tummy bug. Perfect excuse to lay in bed watching Mr. Fummey videos 👍🏼👍🏼
Oh!! Bruce!! I have an exciting update! My eldest college student will hop on over to your beautiful country for the spring semester!! Uni of Edinburgh here she comes!! I’ve been sharing your videos with her for a few years. Now they mean a little bit more to me. 🖤🖤
I will now go watch your video. 😊
Brilliant
I'll never forget learning about the gombeen men Sobieski-Stuart Brothers, and their wholesale myth of Ancient Family/Clan Tartans, and being so disappointed that everyone was taken in by their claims of an ancient tartan descriptive text no one else was allowed to see.
Aye they probalby read it on Twitter😜
@@ScotlandHistoryTours 19th century version. Tw*tter🤣🤣🤣
Oh my! You're coming to Canada!
I am indeed. Get show dates and tickets at www.brucefummey.co.uk/shows.aspx Vancouver listing still to go up
I will see you in Perth, June 1!@@ScotlandHistoryTours
Wohooo!
Great vidya brucey-fella as always
Thank you kindly
I always wondered how and why the Massai wear tartan when they have been nomadic for so long. And their beadwork is extraordinary.
Love to hear how the Smarts or Smearts have in common with the McDonalds in Scotland? Just found my family heritage of Scottish roots and tree from there, thanks and really love your shows and views and keep it coming please. Learning so much, thanks!!!!
Glad I came across your channel.
Me too!😁
More about the tartan!
This guy has the best accent dirty deeds done dirt cheap