Why don't more people wear old non-clan tartans?

[figheadair]

Thanks, Peter, for that nutshell.

How does the Textile Heritage project fit in here? My understanding was that its funding purpose was the gathering of knowledge on all Scottish textiles, including tartan, and the development of some sort of network between the many small and large collections.

Not sure it does really although it should. It has a little bit of tartan and related connections but misses out all of the non-publically funded collections which is where an awful lot of the gems are. A start but given its significance to Scotland I really believe that tartan needs to stand on its own.