OMG! -Tartan!

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This is a pic that I took of my favourite extant garment fragment from the MOL. I have stared at images of this for hours. Even seen the real thing under glass but somehow I never realised before tonight that it is made from TARTAN fabric! It is not terribly obvious but is visible. Even faintly visible in the London finds book "Textiles and Clothing". So why did I never see it before? Now I want a tartan gown. Hmm, I may even already have the fabric!

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PS, replying to myself: the fact that this is a picture of St. F. in glory means that it is by definition not a real garment, but rather a representation of the heavenly robes he wears after he dies - in contrast to the tattered robes he wore when alive. Nonetheless the fact that the artist can conceive of such a checky garment means that there may well have been such things - although, I'd suggest, not necessarily made of gold.