The V&A, Dundee, is holding an Exhibition about tartan. It goes on until Jan 2024. It’s worth seeing.

We visited it in August (and again with our eldest son, his wife and daughter, in September.)

One of the exhibits is the oldest piece of tartan known:-

There are many examples of tartan being used for promotional or decorative purposes:-

These can go back a long time:-

However I did not expect to see a NATO tartan nor one commemorating the SALT Treaty:-

Tartan is not an exclusively Scottish style. Below is a Burmese one:-

Beside that  was a Masai one:-

Madras tartans were once thought to have been inspired by Scots but they are in fact indigenous to India:-

Tartans from Balmoral testify to Queen Victoria’s enthusiasm for Scottish culture:-

Modern takes on tartan. (There’s a Dundee FC strip in the background here):-