Quote Originally Posted by mookien View Post
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"If you asked a weaver to look up the US Air Force Reserve Pipe Band tartan in the Registry and weave you a length, you would get the following:

http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tar....aspx?ref=4180

What started this in the first place is that is exactly what I did. And I got a length of tartan that does not match what the USAF Reserve Pipe Band wears in their uniform, as you can see in what Carolyn is wearing in my previous post. So, that's where the mystery lies."

I'm not understanding how this is not a weaver's mistake. The way I interpret your comment above is that you asked a weaver to weave the US Air Force Reserve Pipe Band tartan, but instead they sent you Strathmore's US Air Force (Not Official) cloth. That seems to qualify as a mistake to me. What am I missing?
I have to say that I'm about at the stage of beating my head on the desk.

1) I asked the weaver to weave the USAF Reserve Pipe Band tartan. The weaver did exactly that. I got a length of tartan that _absolutely perfectly matches_ the one listed in the Registry. There were no mistakes.

2) What surprised me was that this perfect, no-errors length of tartan (which does, in fact, match what is in the Registry) does _not_ match what Strathmore is currently weaving as USAF tartan. In other words, what Strathmore is weaving does not match what is currently registered as having been adopted by the USAF Reserve Pipe Band. And the tartan in the current USAF Reserve Pipe Band uniforms (which was custom woven in 16 oz by Strathmore - it's not their stock 10 0z) _does not_ match what is in the Registry as the tartan adopted by the USAF Reserve Pipe Band either.

3) In fact, the only piece of tartan in this whole discussion that does, actually, perfectly match the sett in the Registry of Scottish tartans is the one that I had custom woven last summer.

I don't honestly know how I can be any clearer than that. Or am I losing my mind and no one understands what I'm saying??