Scottish Tartans Authority

The Scottish Tartans Authority (STA) is a Scottish registered charity dedicated to the promotion, protection and preservation of Scotland's national cloth. Founded in 1995, the charitable purposes of the Authority are:

  • to protect, preserve, conserve, promote and explain the culture, traditions and uses of Scottish Tartans and highland dress; and
  • to advance and promote the education of the public about Scottish Tartans and Highland Dress and their respective origins, manufacture, use and development.

With the assistance of members and stakeholders, the STA fields enquiries each year and works in partnership with, and as advisors to, a range of public and private bodies.

The STA holds a collection of tartan and highland dress, costume, textiles, tartan records, manuscripts, books, other important artefacts. It holds details of c. 10,000 tartans within its core database, and a number of items from the collection are on loan to various museums, notably National Museums Scotland, V&A Dundee, the Braemar Highland Games Centre, and the Gordon Highlanders Museum.

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