Paintings

Catalogued paintings from galleries and collections that depict tartan cloth — dated primary witnesses to how a sett looked when painted. A single source spanning institutions (National Galleries of Scotland first): per-painting metadata in paintings.jsonl, each record naming its holding gallery and its own licence and attribution. The painted cloth's sett is recovered by a manual reading informed by internal/unweave (see research/painting-to-sett.md); the curated reading is folded into the generated /paintings/ pages. Setts pending recovery, so no variants are attested yet.

Each painting is a dated witness: a portrait of c.1750 attests how a sett looked then, so the cloth read from it sits in time against the written records. The collection spans galleries (the National Galleries of Scotland first), each work carrying its own credit line and image terms. Browse them as a chronology in the Paintings gallery; the sett recovered from each painted cloth — and the tartan it is matched to — is on its page there.

Provenance

Licensing is per artwork and per gallery — each record's license and attribution fields are authoritative. Images are downloaded by hand for research (painting→sett recovery) and not redistributed; the images directory is a local, gitignored cache.