06/06/2022
Tartan is updating its image in the 21st Century, with new patterns exploring issues around climate change, homelessness – and World War Two dive bombers, writes Norman Miller.
With Callander being in a region associated with the MacGregor clan, Wilton used the colours of their tartan (blue, green and white) as a springboard for a design that added new layers of resonance – both visual and conceptual. For example, when woven, colours come together at certain points to fill the fabric with glowing points of brightness that look like miniature suns rising on a new dawn. "So the focal point is the rising Sun surrounded by the colours of the Scottish flag (blue and white)," says Wilton.
