https://www.tartandictionary.org/tags/reconstruction/Recent content in Reconstruction on Tartan DictionaryHugoenSun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.tartandictionary.org/posts/tarimtartan/Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.tartandictionary.org/posts/tarimtartan/<p>There is a piece of checked woollen cloth, woven on the rim of the Taklamakan desert about three thousand years ago, that looks unmistakably like tartan — the <strong>oldest surviving example</strong> of the 2/2-twill check tradition. <em>Why</em> that matters, and how the same weave reaches from Xinjiang to the Highlands, is the subject of the companion post, <a href="https://www.tartandictionary.org/posts/originsoftartan/"><strong>The Origins of Tartan</strong></a>. This post does the narrower, hands-on job: it takes the surviving Hami fragment, <strong>reads a <a href="https://www.tartandictionary.org/posts/tartan/">sett</a> from it</strong>, reconstructs the colours the burial bleached away — and sets my reading beside the other reconstructions people have made of the same cloth, because this is a guess, and guesses should be compared.</p>