Highland Textiles: Practicality vs. RomanticismErin Kuester

If it wasna for the weavers, what would you do?

Ye wouldna hae your cloth that’s made of woo

Ye wouldna hae your cloak neither black nor blue

If it wasna for the wark o the weavers!

Highland Textiles

PracticalitySpinning

Weaving

Linguistic legacies

RomanticismThe Act of Proscription

Industrialization

References

Spinning and Weaving by Enid Gauldie for National Museums of Scotland

Tartan by Jonathon Faiers

Tocher: Tales, Songs, Traditions no. 50 Selected from the archives of the School of Scottish Studies

Tartan, the Highland Textile by James D. Scarlett

The Tartan Weaver’s Guide by James D. Scarlett