The Weaver's Book of Scottish Tartans
Author: Harriet Tidball
Publisher: Shuttle Craft Books Incorporated
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Harriet Tidball
Publisher: Shuttle Craft Books Incorporated
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James Desmond Scarlett
Publisher: Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume combines practical experience of tartan-weaving with a grasp of Highland social history. Aimed specifically at the amateur tartan-weaver, it contains much that should be of interest to students of either subject.
Author: Linda Tilson Davis
Publisher:
Published: 2018-09-25
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9781723818028
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tartans are among some of the most ancient of fabrics and remain classics for fashion. Furthermore, tartan designs have worked their way into a wide array of commercial products. Planning and weaving tartans can be a challenge for weavers due to the complex color arrangements that are based on registered threadcounts for clans, districts and a host of other organizations that have adopted tartans as part of their identity. This book provides step-by-step instructions on:researching tartan setts and obtaining thread count information; planning and designing a tartan project;tips and tricks for successful tartan weaving; and more! Written for Beginning to Advanced Weavers
Author: Jonathan Faiers
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781845203771
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tartan has colonized the world. The flexibility of its design and the traditionalism of its symbolism - as well as the travels of the Scots - have taken the fabric around the globe. Traditionally the visual sign of clanship and district, tartan was popularized outside Scotland by the tartan-clad Highland regiments and Queen Victoria's royal endorsement. Hollywood has continued to sustain the romantic fictions of tartan from Brigadoon to Braveheart. At the same time, designers such as Westwood and McQueen have deliberately subverted the traditional and historical associations of the fabric, as have contemporary artists such as Matthew Barney. Post-punk, tartan now turns up in the most surprising places, influencing the conceptual clothing of a generation of Japanese designers such as Watanabe and Takahashi, the stage costumes of Outkast's Andre 3000 and contemporary interior design. Beautifully illustrated and weaving together a story out of history, art, music, film and fashion, Tartan contains everything you ever wanted to know about this most radical and most traditional of fabrics.
Author: Harriet Tidball
Publisher: Shuttle Craft Books Incorporated
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James D. Scarlett
Publisher: Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780856831201
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Something of a doubtful mist still hangs over these Highland traditions, nor can it be entirely dispelled by the most ingenious researches of modern criticism...' So wrote D.C.Stewart in the Preface to the first edition of The Setts of the Scottish Tartans published in 1950. His definitive work did much to remedy the situation, but subsequent further research made the need for a new book apparent. The author combines practical experience with a grasp of Highland social history in this book, which although aimed specifically at the amateur tartan-weaver, contains much of which will be of interest to students of either subject. The weaver is provided with precise hints on the special requirements of weaving tartan including threadcounts, accompanied by historical notes for 228 tartans, 142 of them illustrated in glowing colours which seem to reflect the lakes, sky, hills and valleys of Scotland. There are concise and informative articles on tartan pattern, colour, yarn, thread counts, yarn thicknesses and the actual weaving of the cloth. The basis of any tartan, as the author points out, is a simple two-colour check which may be varied by the addition of over-checks, bands and stripes in contrasting colours so arranged as to give a balanced and harmonious pattern.The author's interest in tartan brought him early into contact with the Scottish Tartans Society and with the late Donald C. Stewart with whom he collaborated over several years in a serious study of the subject, collaboration which resulted in the publication of a number of books, most recently his definitive work Tartan: The Highland Textile.His advice has been sought on the design of new tartans, notably the American Bicentennial, but his main interest is in the old ones. As one of the few specialist handweavers of tartan, he concentrated on making facsimiles and wove a reproduction of a pre-1745 plaid for the National Trust for Scotland's Centre at Culloden. In 1994 he handed his extensive archive, covering about one hundred years of serious tartan research, to the Highland Regional Archive for its preservation and for the benefit of future students.
Author: Will Scarlett
Publisher: Charles t Branford
Published: 1985-03-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780318045917
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: VIXY. RAE
Publisher:
Published: 2023-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781785305207
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Harriet Tidball
Publisher: Franklin Classics
Published: 2018-10-15
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780343258948
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Frank Adam
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 652
ISBN-13: 0806304480
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Given by Eugene Edge III.