Bonny Prints Charming!
Updated: May 6, 2019
A week in Scotland and thoughts naturally turn to the ubiquitous tartan, well it is everywhere!
Several years ago - during a visit to Cardoness - I found myself truly taken by the urge to produce my own tartans based on the colours of the seasons in Scotland. The skies, the stone, the highlands and the heather. I created a collection of twelve, one for each month and I still love them all.
The colours of a January day with weak sunlight, a streak of white in the palest of blue skies, the intense red of a robin's breast and long purple shadows. February in the Cairngorms! Bluer skies, white snow, dark brown peat, browns and greys - of rocks and ice. Sunlight on rocks and daffodils, spring greens and rushy glens! Heathers, clear blue skies and pine needle green. Summer on it's way bringing warmth and ice cream sunsets. Blue skies, babbling brooks and clover in leaf and flower. Northern lights in northern skies! Blue skies and the colours of Autumn setting the glens alight! The shelter of pine forests and gold and yellow lichens on exposed rocks. Mellow fruitfulness. Bright sunsets, bracken and berries. Winter skies, low sunlight picking out the remnants of Autumn. Christmas! Berries bright on Holly, Ice blue skies with vapour trails and long, low golden sunsets.
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