This post is mainly concerning the Irish National Tartan, but I thought a little back story might make why I noticed what I noticed a bit clearer.

After going to the Labour Day classic football (CFL) game here in Calgary, where a bunch of the fans got all painted up and dressed in their team's colours, I starting thinking that it might be cool to be able to wear a kilt with a tartan that has team colours in it. I cheer for the Edmonton Eskimos whose colours are green, gold (yellow) and white.

Today it donned on me that the Irish National tartan has those colours in it, but how close to the team's colours I really wasn't sure. So I started looking up some of the threads on here that show-cased people and their Irish National Tartan kilts. When I saw the kilts my first thought was "Yup, the colours in this tartan definitely work." Then when I looked at the tartan a bit more closely I noticed that each one was different.

So I was just wondering what the "story" behind the Irish National Tartan is. Anyone know?

These are the 3 threads I looked at. The kilts look great!
Kilt Cousins from Tattoobradley

SWK Irish National from Doublewood

Irish National from Al G. Sporrano