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Description: | Volume of "hard" tartans. Hard tartan stopped being woven by the 1850s. The wool was combed rather than carded so that the fibres all lie vertically, and the final cloth was not processed in the the same way as modern cloth so that lanolin remained in the fabric. Bound by Harrisons with the firm's name on the cover, but woven by Wilsons of Banockburn. The fabric was possibly originally collected by Ogilvie's. Features many rare and early tartans and some such as such as Austin, Sir Walter Scott, Robin Hood and Dalmeny tartans for which no other piece of fabric has survived. The white stripe in some tartans is woven in silk, which would usually be for fabric used by the laird or military officers. | Format: | Volume | License: | http://www.stickii.co.uk/umis/termsandconditions.html#heriot-watt-rights | Publisher: | Heriot-Watt University Archive, Records Management and Museum Service Scottish Borders Campus, | Rights holder: | 46182 | Temporal: | 1840s | Source: | Heriot-Watt University | Identifier: | GH/6/1/3/1 | Format: | Volume |
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