Scotland's Wool/Textile Industry and its Socio-Cultural Setting

  • House of Tartan : Tartan Story and Products

    House of Tartan's web site provides the visitor with links to a database of world tartans, the socio-cultural history behind the tartan, a display of fabrics and products and the ability to order on-line, etc.

  • Discover Scotland : Tartan and Wool Shopping

    Discover Scotland's web site provides a search facility by crossing boxes for both tartan and wool shopping as well as a road map location. One can also request the nearest hotels and entertainement places, for example, to the chosen destination.

  • Scotland's Woollen Mill Country

    Heart-of-Scotland's web page informs and illustrates how the industry and local culture are interconnected. Though it mentions the Border country it is mostly on the Wool industry in Clackmannanshire.

  • The Tartan Pages : Scotland's Internet

    This direct link to the Clothing & Textiles page of the Business section again shows how the industry is related to Scottish culture through the specific tartans of each clan.

  • The Shetland Wool Carpeting Company

    Essentially contains information on the company with images of its rugs and its socio-cultural design influences.

  • Woolly Jumpers Home Page

    Woolly Jumpers Home Page is a very basic on-line catalogue, but of knitwear produced from mills in the Scottish Bordersas well as English mills. A basic British attempt at internet exposure.

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