Membership
Why join?
As a registered charity, we rely on both private and
business members
to fulfill our aims. Joining us offers you many great benefits
listed below but perhaps most importantly your membership directly
contributes to ensuring that one of Scotland's most treasured icons
is maintained for future generations of Scots, both home and
abroad. Our key activites include the following;
- National Tartan Centre - Support the ambitious
plans for a National Tartan Centre - working alongside Scottish
Enterprise we have undertaken a feasibility study on the project
that has recommended that there is a viable future for a Centre
that showcases one of Scotland's most potent national symbols. The
National Tartan Centre will showcase and promote Tartan as the
defining symbol of a nation.
- Advocacy and Representation - Our activities
are about protecting tartan and the organisations associated with
it so that we can all effectively work together to benefit the
sector thus ensuring the long term sustainability of those working
with tartan
- The
Tartan Collection & Library - The Scottish Tartans
Authority maintains the world's largest and most comprehensive
tartan database, the most extensive woven tartan archives and an
unsurpassed archive of books and documents on tartan and its many
strands. As well as the physical archive of tartan samples and
costume, our tartan specialists have a wealth of knowledge of
tartan design and manufacturing as well as the many cultural
traditions, histories of people, communities and events associated
with tartan and Highland dress.
Private
members can join us from as little as £20 a
year. So if you are someone with an interest in
tartan, why not join us and help protect one of Scotland's national
icons.
Business
Members - Depending on what size of business you
are you can join us and support the tartan and highland wear
industry from as little as £50 a
year.
Current Members - If you are already part of the STA family then
just click on My Account to log in.