"tiretaine" - 1 õppematerjal

Scotland

It also included a large group of looselyrelated divisions related families or outside groups, all of whom looked to the clan chief as their head and for their protection .  Famous Scottish People William Wallace Rod Stewart King MacBeth Sean Connery Alexander Graham Bell Sir Alexander Fleming James Watt  Tartans in Scotland The word 'tartan' is derived from the French 'tiretaine' which described a type of material, not a specific color or pattern. It is not, as some have tried to claim, of Gaelic derivation; the Gaelic for tartan is, and has always been, 'breacan'. The earliest tartans were of undyed wool from the indigenous Soay sheep: light brown, dark brown and white. The oldest preserved Scottish tartan is a fragment in these colours known as 'the Falkirk tartan'.