A scrap of weathered fabric, discovered four decades ago in a peat bog, is the world’s oldest piece of tartan, with new analysis determining it dates to the 16th century. The textile was found in the ...

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DUNDEE, Scotland (Reuters) - An architectural gem on Scotland's northeastern coast in the angled shape of design museum V&A Dundee has sparked hopes of a new start for a long-forgotten city. Japanese ...

Scotland has done a bang-up job of modernizing its image away from just Highland cows and haggis; just look at Glasgow’s design renaissance, or Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners’s striking new home for ...

Today, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are officially opening the V&A Dundee, Scotland's first design museum. While there, the Earl and Countess of Strathearn, as they are known in the country, will ...

An international centre of design, V&A Dundee presents the brilliance of Scottish creativity and the best of design from around the world. The first ever dedicated design museum in Scotland and the ...

V&A Dundee, Scotland’s first design museum, stretches over the River Tay, its corner protruding like the bow of a boat. It also serves as the first outpost of London’s famed V&A, or Victoria and ...

Sally Foster has received/is receiving funding from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Historic Environment Scotland and AHRC for various research projects. Glowing from enthusiastic reviews and ...

Tartan may well be “the most categorised textile on Earth”, said Cal Revely-Calder in The Daily Telegraph. There are more than 11,000 recognised varieties of this grid of “geometric patterns of ...