Quote Originally Posted by acaig
I wholeheartedly support the idea of an X tartan. However we do need to be careful about using heraldic symbols. There are laws about ths sort of thing in the UK and we must be careful not to break them.
I'm not sure what you mean. Tartan is by nature a completely different artform than heraldry. To use colours from armourial bearings in designing a tartan is no infringement on the rights of the armiger. Besides, when I use heraldic tinctures and metals as colour inspiration, it's at the behest of the armiger. But even were that not so, the way colours are represented in a tartan can't bear much resemblance to the way they are used in an heraldic device or coat of arms. So far as I know, no armiger holds arms that include a field of 'plaid'!