New research suggests that a piece of fabric tartan found in a peat bog in the Scottish Highlands may be the oldest traditional tartan ever found.The roughly 22 by 17 inch piece of Scottish ...

Using carbon dating, scientists discovered that the “Glen Affric” fabric, uncovered in a peat bog in the Highlands during forestry work and donated to the Scottish Tartans Authority in the ...

Discovered in a bog in Glen Affric, the tartan is now on view at V&A Dundee. Alan Richardson Pix-AR. New research suggests a piece of fabric found in the Scottish Highlands in the early 1980s is ...

The recreated fabric is now part of House of Edgar’s “Seventeen Eighty Three Collection,” a nod to the year House of Edgar was founded. Buyers can then have the fabric made into a kilt or ...

Now, that fabric has been scientifically tested to determine its age, and the findings were historic. The Glen Affric tartan, measuring about 22 inches long and 17 inches wide, is over 400 years ...

The fabric was found almost 40 years ago in a peat ... according to dye analysis and radiocarbon testing commissioned by the Scottish Tartans Authority and released this week.

The world's oldest surviving Scottish tartan is over 400 years old and, though now faded, once sported green, brown, red and yellow, a new analysis of the centuries-old fabric reveals. The tartan ...

A piece of fabric believed to date to around the time of the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots, and discovered in a bog in the Scottish Highlands might be the oldest traditional tartan ever found, new ...

A scrap of weathered fabric, discovered four decades ago in a peat bog, is the world’s oldest piece of tartan, with new analysis determining it dates to the 16th century.

The "rustic" look and loose weave of the fabric was MacDonald's first clue that the tartan predated the 18th century. Surviving tartans from the 1700s were of higher quality, he said.

A piece of fabric believed to date to around the time ... and radiocarbon testing that was commissioned by the Scottish Tartans Authority and released this week, it was likely made in the 16th ...

Using carbon dating, scientists discovered that the “Glen Affric” fabric, uncovered in a peat bog in the Highlands during forestry work and donated to the Scottish Tartans Authority in the ...