"Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy." - Albert Einstein
Happy Tartan Day to everyone, even you, Albert.
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April 6 is Tartan Day, so of course I have to do something to Ceilidh. I made a lasciviously relevant drawing a few years back, with several clothing variants, but now I've put it all into one big image pack for download. 🔞 Adult-only content!
It's available on itch.io as pay-what-you-want, so go grab it for free, or else toss some support my way!
“As a patterned textile, [tartan] features straight lines, right angles, bright colours, and no ambiguity; as a symbol, its lines become fuzzy, its angles circular, its colours muddied, and its meaning polysemic.”
—Ellen R. Beard, “When Tartan Was Not Fake: The Disclothing Act in Gaelic Song”
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2022/06/when-tartan-was-not-fake-the-disclothing-act-in-gaelic-song/
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Tartan is simultaneously a material object, a design template, and a symbol with multiple referents. As a patterned textile, it features straight lines, right angles, bright colours, and no ambiguity; as a symbol, its lines become fuzzy, its angles circular, its colours muddied, and its meaning polysemic (Brown, 9). While this paper addresses the significance […]
“It has been calculated that the area of tartan cloth made each year is sufficient to cover Edinburgh’s Royal Mile to a depth of six hundred feet, an event which you could be forgiven for thinking has already happened”
—“Tartan Nation: ethnicity & Scotland”
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2011/11/editorial-tartan-nation-ethnicity-and-scotland/
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Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy. — Albert Einstein Tartan is significant. Famously it was banned by the Hanoverian regime, following the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. Later rebels of other sorts have taken to it too, from mohawk’d […]
“Admiration for Scottish thought did not, for many Americans, extend to admiring, or even liking, the Scots in their midst. Jefferson included a condemnation of ‘Scotch and other foreign mercenaries’ in an early draft of the Declaration of Independence”
—Prof Susan Manning, “Scotland and America”
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2007/05/scotland-and-america/
In 1781 John Witherspoon coined the word ‘Americanism,’ which he declared to be ‘exactly similar in its formation and signification to the word Scotticism.’ What could he have meant? Since Witherspoon wrote these words – when ‘America’ did not yet exist as a recognised separate nation – there has been no shortage of commentators to […]
Today, 6 April, is Tartan Day – a principally North American day of celebration of Scottish heritage, although it’s also marked, unofficially, in Argentina. 6 April was chosen as it’s the date of the signing of the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320.
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