Sobieski Stuart News Today

Criss-crosses, everywhere: 300 objects covered in them. The exhausting range and depth of the world’s most famous pattern is on full display at the V&A Dundee’s vast new exhibition. Tartan is a more genuine emblem of Scottish nationhood than the famous deep-fried Mars bar, which no one really eats. But it’s not uniquely Scottish. Plaid

From punks to princes, from shortbread tins to enslaved people, the criss-cross fabric has symbolised rebellion, repression – and pure power. As Scotland gets a new leader, we visit a Dundee show exploring its many contradictions