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Title Tartan / Jonathan Faiers.
Author Faiers, Jonathan.
Edition English ed.
Published Oxford : Berg, 2008.


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 DUE 16-06-23 BILLED  Standard  Library Level 11  Fine Arts L4890.T27 FAI  

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Description 326 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.
ISBN 9781845203771 (hbk.)
1845203771 (hbk.)
Note "Published in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum"--T.p. verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-310) and index.
Contents Part I. Tartan and history : Technical construction: sett, weave colour -- Early appearances -- Fragments and fabrication -- Part II. Tartan and dress : Transforming tartan -- Regulation tartan -- Erogenous zones -- Tartan toffs -- Part III. Tartan's embrace : Balmoralization -- Tartan, the grid and modernity -- Supernatural tartan -- Colonization -- Tartan's translation -- Tartan timeline.
Library Class Fine Arts L4890.T27
Subject Plaid -- History.
Weaving -- Patterns -- History.
Wool fabrics -- History.
Textile design -- Scotland -- History.
Tartans -- History.
Other Author Victoria and Albert Museum.

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