Ok, so Christmas is coming and I don't have tartan money lying around. I know I'm not alone in this, but I started this thread to kinda get the ball rolling a little. Whilst ferreting about for tartans I noticed there was no Appalachian tartan. As in one for those of us with roots in Appalachia (Not as in Appie State). Then I saw there was no discussion of such a tartan on the forum either. That kinda surprised me, because I know there has to be plenty of people hear who live in Appalachia or have roots there. My father's fam is from West Virginia/Western Virginia. You don't have to be a genealogist to notice that Scottish, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Welsh immigrants (among others including English, Germans, etc) played a large role in settling the region. Just listen to Appalachian music and you'll hear a Celtic influence.
But there's no Appalachian tartan or project to design one, as near as I can tell.
This is all hypothetical right now (as I said, I just don't have the money for it as we speak) but would anyone be interested in an Appalachian tartan? Show pan-state solidarity! Imagine hiking the AT in your beautiful Appalachian tartan.

Anyway, I just wanted to throw the idea out there. I can't be the only one who's thought of this.

As for potential designs, I've been playing around on the STA's tartan design studio, but I'm still not a master at it and I haven't found a design I like yet. The colors I've been playing around with are Blue, Green, Black and White. If you need your tartan to have a rhyme for it, here goes: (ahem)

Green because our mountains sometimes have trees
Blue cos I like it and this sett's by me
Black's for our lungs, ever blackened by coal
And white's the moonshine-ing down on my soul.