The distinctive fabric has been finding new audiences as contemporary fashion houses and avant-garde weavers do their best to elevate the plaid.
DUNDEE, Scotland — British kings and queens have worn it. Rebels, punk rockers and couture designers embraced or transformed it. And international drag stars like RuPaul and Cheddar Gorgeous strut their stuff in it.
It is tartan, the quintessential Scottish crisscross pattern famous for its use in kilts. And while Heritage Crafts, a British charity that works to safeguard traditional crafts, considers kiltmaking to be endangered, tartan itself is finding new audiences as contemporary fashion houses and avant-garde weavers do their best to explode that grid.
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