Clans and Tartans

by Charles Maclean

Buchanan. Campbell. Macdonald. Robertson. Stewart. These are but a few of the Highland clans whose histories are profiled in Clans and Tartans . About one thousand years ago, the Gaelic word clann, which means children, first came into common usage. The earliest example of checked or striped cloth worn in Scotland is a fragment of two-color "dog-tooth" checked woolen fabric - the so-called "Falkirk tartan" - circa a.d. 235. However, prior to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565542916
• ISBN13: 9781565542914
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.4" x 6.1"