Tiger displays bite as Kent tartanware checks in
One of the earliest examples of the lucrative tartan tourism, which dates back to George IV’s visit to Edinburgh in 1822 and was turbo-charged by Queen Victoria’s love of the Highlands, were the sycamore boxes and trinkets made in small factories in the little Ayrshire town of Mauchline.
Of the hundreds of thousands of such souvenirs produced from the 1820s until the 1930s and sold in…