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I draw some comfort that even Peter our website tartan authority gets tested when trying to identify a tartan on occasion.
My Grandparents and my parents used to play "tartan eyespy" with us youngsters when they were trying to keep us quiet! I used to do the same with my children. It is a fun way to learn a few tartans and I still play a form of tartan "eyespy" with myself on occasion when hanging about waiting for Mrs Jock. Just doing brief count on my fingers I think I could recognise about 25 tartans fairly easily, but I do have to retreat to my "Scottish Clan and Family Encyclopedia" quite often. An ageing memory does not help one bit either. The last tartan to flummox me was the Moffat.
The common civilian tartans that I see here and in no particular order are, Cameron, MacDonald of several sorts, MacLeod of several sorts, Macpherson, Campbell of several sorts, Kennedy, Davison, Maclean(the green one) so no real surprises there, but interestingly I rarely see Clan Chattan. I also would have little idea or interest in who designed most of them or when.
Last edited by Jock Scot; 18th May 21 at 04:33 AM.
" Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the adherence of idle minds and minor tyrants". Field Marshal Lord Slim.
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