WV tartan

[denmcdough]

Here's the West Virginia tartan, and the designer of that tartan. Sorry, but I can't remember his name. Looking at his shirt, I now remember....John Grant!??

[Riverkilt]

So I'm curious about the color selection...lotsa red...gotta look that one up.

[ForresterModern]

Loosely based on a very old tartan woven shawl found in the hollers many years ago and simply called "the West Virginia Shawl" and kept in the WV DAR museum:

"Our final thread count, though similar but not identical to the Shawl, was created incorporating the colors of the West Virginia Symbols. Red for the State Bird, the Cardinal; Black for the State Animal, the Black Bear, coal and oil; Green for the State Flower, the Rhododendron and mountain meadows; Yellow for the State Tree, the Sugar Maple and fall colors; Dark Blue for the mountain rivers and lakes; Azure for the sky above; & White to have all the colors of this great nation intertwined."

Web site:

http://wvtartan.com/


It was officially adopted by the state govt in 2008. Previous xmarks thread about it from back then:

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...-tartan-39315/

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