"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Queen Elizabeth's grandfather King George V, her father King George VI, and, of course, the Queen ...

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 ...

Nevada is known for its desert bighorn sheep — the official state animal — and the desert tortoise, its official reptile. But there are other official designations that are lesser known, including a ...

Royal Stewart. MacDougal. Farquharson. Wemyss. Colquhoun. No, they aren't labels on bottles of Scotch. Nor are they Celtic singing groups. They are the 'official' names of tartans that define this ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Heralding back to history, Tennessee State Parks recently reminded people that the state does, in fact, have an official tartan. The tartan has roots across the Atlantic ...

It’s official - the oldest ever tartan found in Scotland is more than 400 years old. New tests on a scrap of fabric found in a Highland peat bog in the early 1980s have concluded that the iconic ...

Market Street Presbyterian Church in Lima celebrated Scottish heritage Sunday with a Kirkin' O' the Tartan service, honoring ...

Though the royal family is often seen wearing tartan while in Scotland, the pattern is especially prevalent at The Ghillies Ball, as seen in The Crown's fifth season. The ball was first held by Queen ...