Tartan is updating its image in the 21st Century, with new patterns exploring issues around climate change, homelessness – and World War Two dive bombers, writes Norman Miller.

In 1968, the Dutch designer Dom Hans van der Laan wrote his own Modernist homage to tartan when he focused on the grey Douglas sett, with its stripes and squares of black and grey, calling it a ...

This includes Shuka cloth from west Africa and Bhutanese fabric that shares a visual affinity with Scottish tartan. Two of the contemporary uses of tartan on display at the V&A Dundee. Courtesy of ...

Threads of green, grey, pink and black have been woven into the pattern to depict the furry marsupial in a traditional design sequence set by the World Scottish Register of Tartan.