Today tartan may be mostly associated with Scotland; however, the earliest
evidence of tartan is found far afield from the British Isles. According to
the textile historian E. J. W. Barber, the Hallstatt
culture<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstatt_culture> of
Central Europe, which is linked with ancient Celtic populations and
flourished between the 8th and 6th centuries BC, produced tartan-like
textiles. Some of them were recently[*when?
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items>*
] discovered, remarkably preserved,
inSalzburg<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salzburg>,
Austria.[4]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartan#cite_note-BanksdelaChapelle--57-4>
Textile
analysis of fabric from
Indo-European<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-Europeans>
Tocharian <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocharians> graves in Western
China has also shown it to be similar to that of the Iron
Age<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Age> Hallstatt
culture.[12] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartan#cite_note-15> Tartan-like
leggings were found on the "Cherchen
Man<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherchen_Man>",
a 3,000 year-old mummy <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy> found in
the Taklamakan
Desert <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taklamakan_Desert> in western China
(see Tarim mummies
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarim_mummies>).[13]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartan#cite_note-16>
Similar
finds have been made in central Europe and
Scandinavia.[5]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartan#cite_note-scottish.parliament.uk--tartan-ScarlettJames-6>
The
earliest documented tartan in Britain, known as the "Falkirk" tartan, dates
from the 3rd century AD. It was uncovered at
Falkirk<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkirk>
in Stirlingshire <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirlingshire>, Scotland,
about 400 metres north-west of the Antonine
Wall<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonine_Wall>.
The fragment was stuffed into the mouth of an earthenware pot containing
almost 2,000 Roman coins. The Falkirk tartan has a simple check design, of
natural light and dark wool. Early forms of tartan like this are thought to
have been invented in pre-Roman times, and would have been popular among
the inhabitants of the northern Roman
provinces<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_provinces>
[14]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartan#cite_note-17>[15]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartan#cite_note-18>
as
well as in other parts of Northern
Europe<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Europe> such
as Jutland <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutland>, where the same pattern
was prevalent.
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagpipes
I just know what I read on Wikipedia:
*Bagpipes* are a class of musical
instrument<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_instrument>
, aerophones <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerophone>, using enclosed
reeds<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_(music)> fed
from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. Though the
Scottish Great
Highland Bagpipe <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Highland_Bagpipe> and
Irish uilleann pipes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uilleann_pipes> have the
greatest international visibility, bagpipes have been played for centuries
throughout large parts of Europe, the Caucasus, around the Persian Gulf and
in Northern Africa. The term *bagpipe* is equally correct in the singular
or plural, although in the English language, pipers most commonly talk of
"the pipes", "a set of pipes" or "a stand of pipes".
And the guide at Jerash who told us they originated there ;-)
Tina
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hmmm, then why is one of the pipes covered in tartan, Tina?
>
> Chris
>
> On 3 Mar 14, at 16:44, Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > At the Greco-Roman ruins of Jerash, I was surprised to learn that
> bagpipes
> > originated in the middle-east, not Scotland!
> >
> > http://www.pbase.com/image/154687727
> >
> > C&C greatly appreciated.
>
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