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The first was to render generally accessible some of those beautiful but comparatively unknown examples of old tartans represented in family portraits, miniatures, and relics, as well as in the few collections of tartans which exist in the country, and to set forth all that co...
The first was to render generally accessible some of those beautiful but comparatively unknown examples of old tartans represented in family portraits, miniatures, and relics, a...
2. Part 2But the most detailed notice of the dress worn by the inhabitants of the Highlands and Islands in the sixteenth century is to be found in a work by John Leslie, Bishop of Ross,...
3. Part 3Peculiar interest attaches to the description of John Taylor in _The Pennyless Pilgrimage_; for his observations, carefully noted down in 1618, in view of the fact that they wou...
4. Part 4During my stay I generally observed the men to be large-bodied, stout, subtle, active, patient of cold and hunger. There appeared in all their actions a certain generous air of...
5. Part 5Various reasons are given both for and against the Highland dress. It is urged against it, that it distinguishes the natives as a body of people distinct and separate from the r...
6. Part 6Indulgent laws at last restore The noble dress our fathers wore. Exulting, let us then resume The bonnet blue and eagle plume; The tartan coat and jaunty vest And belted plaid b...
7. Part 7What Sir Richard Urquhart the author was I have not yet made out, but presume that he was of the Cromarty family, though I confess I cannot find one of the name corresponding to...
8. Part 8Professor Skene’s statements—first, that a description of the manuscript, with a transcript of part, if not the whole of it, was sent to the Society of Scottish Antiquaries, wit...
9. Part 9The _Vestiarium_, referred to at some length in the Introduction, was, if we set aside the single plate issued by Logan in 1831, the first work published containing illustration...
10. Part 10There is every reason to esteem this tartan of early date. Possessing many characteristics of old design, it figures as Strathallan Drummond in most of the trustworthy collectio...
11. Part 11The traditions, songs, and records of the Mac Leans contain references of a much earlier date to this tartan than do any authenticated collection of, or published work on, parti...
12. Part 12The accompanying illustration reproduces a tartan depicted in a sixteenth century painting which existed in Paris between forty and fifty years ago, and was known as a portrait...