Tartan Ferret at STA

[Rex_Tremende]

Last night I was browsing the site map at the Scottish Tartans Authority and noticed that there were two links for "Search the STA Tartan Index." I clicked the second one and pulled up the "Tartan Ferret," that search tool that has been advertised as "coming soon" on the home page for so long.

This search utility has more options, for instance, you can specify particular sequence of colors to see which tartans contain a match, but it takes a couple of extra clicks to see the renderings. The bonus, however, is that once you get there, you can see the notes about the tartan, if they exist. Many are quite extensive, like "Antarctic," and explain what all the colors are supposed to symbolize. I hope this isn't a mistake, as in the original search the notes are restricted to members only.

For some reason, I am spotting tartans with this method I hadn't seen before, like the "Golfer's" and "Chinese-Scottish."

Regards,
Rex in Cincinnati

[Jerry]

That's very intertesting, Rex. I'll have to play with it a little more, but I did come up with a district tartan, Blue Ridge, with connections to both Virginia and North Carolina. Thanks for the link.

[smaughazard]

Thanks, Rex! Unfortunately, now I've found 4 more tartans I want…

[starbkjrus]

And it still won't pull up the XMarks tatan.

[UmAnOnion]

Thanks, Rex! Unfortunately, now I've found 4 more tartans I want…

sorry, but i am missing out on how thats unfortunate....

[Rex_Tremende]

...I did come up with a district tartan, Blue Ridge, with connections to both Virginia and North Carolina.

Looks like there are two of those, and one of them has a copyright (Blue Ridge #3708), and the other was specifically designed for anyone to wear freely (Blue Ridge Highlands Heritage #6637).

How about that?

Regards,
Rex in Cincinnati

[MacTavishOfJapan]

I had a look through that site and found it utterly appalling in Firfox and IE7, pages loading twice and stuff. I found it unusable, shame as it looks like it would be great if it worked correctly.

[Robin]

They still didn't add the Xmarks tartan

Their website isn't very up to date...to say the least.

I wanted to visit the STA in Crieff, but they where closed that week...no notice on the website, nor an email to the members (I'm a member).
Very annoying when you stand in front of a closed door

When I became a member...november 2005...I didn't receive the membership "welcome package", send a few emails...no reply.

Sloppy...

[glengall1]

I had a look through that site and found it utterly appalling in Firfox and IE7, pages loading twice and stuff. I found it unusable, shame as it looks like it would be great if it worked correctly.

I use Firefox and the pages load accurately and quickly so it may be some permisions you have that are causing the problem on your own machine.

With regrds IE7 there are many many sites that are not IE7 compliant. My on-line banking warns that their system is useless under this browser and will not work. I think it will take many months, if not years for all sites to become IE7 compliant. For that very reason I am keeping my IE6 but anyways I use Firefox in the main.

[ozmeath]

That was a 3 hours I didn't think was going to spent on the computer! There was at least a dozen tartans I had no idea was associated with Australia. Cheers for that Rex.
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