Vestiarium Scoticum - the tartan Pandora's box

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One of the interesting things about the VS, if interesting is the right word, is the fact that if one takes in the earlier Cromarty Mss into account then this masterpiece of deception took nearly 15 years to get off the ground. So far as I know, this was the first example of tartans being designed by non-weavers which goes some way to explaining some of the incosistancies and often garish designs.