First ever Polish tartan registered in Edinburgh
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Victoria Bieniek
23.08.2017 13:48
A tartan design celebrating the cultural partnership between Kraków and Edinburgh has been officially added to the Scottish Register of Tartans, one of only a handful of tartans representing districts outside the Commonwealth.
City of Kraków tartan. Photo: tartanregister.gov.uk
Poland’s first tartan, it was designed by Edinburgh’s Alex Imrie and selected by the residents of Kraków as one that “best represented the spirit” of Kraków.
It is being made in Scotland in one of its last remaining traditional weaving mills, and Edinburgh's lord provost will present it to Kraków’s mayor on 1 October, a day after a film of its production is screened in Kraków’s Mały Rynek during the Scottish Tartan Festival in the historic Polish city.
The tartan’s pattern is large to represent Kraków’s Old Town square and colours reflect the Polish and Scottish flags.
The competition for Kraków’s tartan, which saw 26 entrants shortlisted to five before Imrie's design won an online poll, was organised by the cities of Kraków and Edinburgh, the Scottish-Polish Cultural Association, and the Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Edinburgh. (vb)
Source: PAP