Stewart, Donald Calder

Tartan becomes a precise language of colour and thread counts in the prints from Donald Calder Stewart's The Setts of the Sc...

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Tartan becomes a precise language of colour and thread counts in the prints from Donald Calder Stewart's The Setts of the Scottish Tartans, published in 1950 with descriptive and historical notes. Pattern plates bring named clan and family tartans together, among them the Black Watch, Stewart, Buchanan and Macdonald, with examples associated with historical dress and Culloden, and grouped plates make differences of stripe width, sequence and colour easy to see. Diagrams explain the intermixture of warp and weft, twill weaving and the repetition of a sett, linking the finished cloth to its construction. Stewart recorded and analysed these designs rather than inventing them.

Tartan becomes a precise language of colour and thread counts in the prints from Donald Calder Stewart's The Setts of the Scottish Tartans, published in 1950 with descriptive and historical notes. Pattern plates bring named clan and family tartans together, among them the Black Watch, Stewart, Buchanan and Macdonald, with examples associated with historical dress and Culloden, and grouped plates make differences of stripe width, sequence and colour easy to see. Diagrams explain the intermixture of warp and weft, twill weaving and the repetition of a sett, linking the finished cloth to its construction. Stewart recorded and analysed these designs rather than inventing them.

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