The black, red, gray and pink design honors the thousands of individuals—mostly women—who were persecuted under the Scottish Witchcraft Act ...

There are thousands of officially registered Scottish tartan designs, but only one is dedicated to the “witches” of Scotland. Certified earlier this month, the tricolor pattern is intended as ...

A new Scottish tartan has been designed to honor the thousands of individuals — mostly women — who were executed between 1563 and 1736 under Scotland’s Witchcraft Act. The Witches of Scotland tartan ...

The Battle of Culloden and the Dress Act: Post-Culloden, tartan became a forbidden fabric, symbolizing defiance. Its ban was an attempt to quell Scottish rebellions, yet it only strengthened the ...

This primitive fabric is invented in a Roman-era fort in Falkirk, Scotland and it is also used to exemplify the first version of tartan fabric. Wool is used to make tartan and colored with ...

a Witches of Scotland tartan which would convey the plight of all those persecuted in the greatest miscarriage of justice in the country’s legal history. The final design — a suitably gothic ...

It will be the first Tartan Day, a day to celebrate Scottish heritage, without her father, Angus MacDonald. He died Dec. 27. “I know I will have a knot in my stomach at the beginning of the day ...

Tartan is more than patterned cloth in Scotland. Specific tartans were linked to clans and regions, and the designs carry symbolic meaning. Modern tartans are registered for organisations ...