Author: John Telfer DunbarPublisher: Edinburgh : Oliver & Boyd [1962]
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
History of Highland Dress ...
Author: John Telfer DunbarScottish National Dress and Tartan
Author: Stuart ReidPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0747813361
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Tartan is an enormously popular pattern in modern fashion. Beginning as Highland dress, it was originally peculiar to certain areas of Scotland, but is now generally accepted as its national costume: what was once ordinary working clothing of a distinctive local style has been formalised into a ceremonial dress, with tartans once woven according to the fancy of those who wore them becoming fixed with certain patterns prescribed for different families, areas or institutions. This process was not, as is popularly thought, a phenomenon begun by the romantic novels of Sir Walter Scott, but began long before as a reaction to the union with England in 1707. This book traces not only the early stages of that evolution, but the process by which the various tartans became icons of Scottish identity.
History of Highland Dress
Author: John Telfer DunbarPublisher: Edinburgh : Oliver & Boyd [1962]
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
TAILORED FOR SCOTLAND
Author: DEIRDE. KINLOCH ANDERSONPublisher:
ISBN: 9781849345316
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Clans and Families of Scotland
Author: Alexander FultonPublisher: Booksales
ISBN: 9780785810506
Category : Clans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Provides an illustrated history of Scottish Highland clans and their associated tartans.
A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans
Author: James BrowneThe Invention of Scotland
Author: Hugh Trevor-RoperPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300176538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This book argues that while Anglo-Saxon culture has given rise to virtually no myths at all, myth has played a central role in the historical development of Scottish identity. Hugh Trevor-Roper explores three myths across 400 years of Scottish history: the political myth of the "ancient constitution" of Scotland; the literary myth, including Walter Scott as well as Ossian and ancient poetry; and the sartorial myth of tartan and the kilt, invented--ironically, by Englishmen--in quite modern times. Trevor-Roper reveals myth as an often deliberate cultural construction used to enshrine a people's identity. While his treatment of Scottish myth is highly critical, indeed debunking, he shows how the ritualization and domestication of Scotland's myths as local color diverted the Scottish intelligentsia from the path that led German intellectuals to a dangerous myth of racial supremacy. This compelling manuscript was left unpublished on Trevor-Roper's death in 2003 and is now made available for the first time. Written with characteristic elegance, lucidity, and wit, and containing defiant and challenging opinions, it will absorb and provoke Scottish readers while intriguing many others. "I believe that the whole history of Scotland has been coloured by myth; and that myth, in Scotland, is never driven out by reality, or by reason, but lingers on until another myth has been discovered, or elaborated, to replace it."-Hugh Trevor-Roper
A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans
Author: James BrownePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368736558
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.
History of Highland Dress
Author: John Telfer DunbarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Establishing Dress History
Author: Lou TaylorPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719066399
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
'Establishing Dress History' will appeal not only to students and academics bt all those those with an interest in the history of dress and fashion. The title fuses together two areas of current academic interest, dress design and history, and current museum studies approaches.