The Hatbox and the Biscuit Tin: John Logie Baird and the Tartan of a Family of Makers
The story of the Baird tartan is tied to an old Scottish family whose tradition of making things stretches from poets and ironmasters to one of the pioneers of television. In the summer of 1923, in an attic room above a shop in Hastings, on the south coast of England, a thin Scotsman with poor…