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Underground Tartan

Why is one of the Big Apple’s subway trains decked out in a tartan from a tiny studio on the edge of the Scottish Highlands? First build in the early 1900s, that subway train is actually New York’s 42nd Street Shuttle, an historic automated, 820 metre (two minute)…

Scots Heritage

The light-hearted suggestion that the skins of generations of Scottish emigrants turned tartan the minute they left Scotland’s shores, has a ring of truth to it — to this day, many of their descendants are still seeking to identify that tartan! Of all the small nations on earth,…

Hot off the Loom – The Russian Arctic Convoy Tartan!

This commission has been one of the most evocative and worthwhile designs ever undertaken.  Having had a long association with successive Russian Consul Generals in Edinburgh I was honoured to be asked to design a very special tartan for the 75th Anniversary of the commencement of the Russian…

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