https://www.bytestone.uk/tags/tartan/Recent content in Tartan on Bytestone BlogHugoenFri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.bytestone.uk/posts/tartan/Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.bytestone.uk/posts/tartan/<p>Tartan or checked weaving pattern has ancient origins. Perhaps it came with the spread of the ancient Bronze age Celts from Austria and Turkey. To the East there may be a link to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarim_mummies">Tarim Mummies</a> as was popularised by Elizabeth Barber<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup>. This currently has got caught up in origin stories of the Han. Notable mummies are the tall, red-haired &ldquo;Chärchän man&rdquo; or the &ldquo;Ur-David&rdquo; (1000 BCE); who wore a red twill tunic and tartan leggings. Elizabeth Barber highlights the similarities between this and fragments recovered from salt mines associated with the Hallstatt culture.</p>