Surprise with the US Air Force Reserve Pipe Band Tartan

[mookien]

Barb: In post #28 I wrote, ...

"I inserted some information that I recently obtained on the "USAFR PB" (what I call the Lady Jane, for the sake of brevity) ..."

I use "Lady Jane" simply as an abbreviation. It is easier for me to think and type "Lady Jane" than the cumbersome "USAFRPB", or the even more cumbersome "US Air Force Reserve Pipe Band".

I'm sorry for any confusion that may have caused.

You are correct. There is no registered Lady Jane tartan. But, if in the "Keywords:" search field of the SRT one enters "Lady Jane" or "lady jane", you are taken to the US Air Force Reserves Pipe Band tartan. Also, in the Registration notes is written, "Originally called the Lady Jane of St. Cirus, ...".

From your post it seems that your weaver simply made a mistake. Perhaps the weaver regards the two different (but similar) tartans as one and the same. I would hope not, because they have two distinct threadcounts, but in the name of "artistic license" maybe that's not so important (to the weavers, anyway).

[Barb T]

From your post it seems that your weaver simply made a mistake. Perhaps the weaver regards the two different (but similar) tartans as one and the same. I would hope not, because they have two distinct threadcounts, but in the name of "artistic license" maybe that's not so important (to the weavers, anyway).

???I don't follow at all. The folks who wove the tartan for me didn't make a mistake - they wove exactly what is registered as tartan 2437, which is listed as the USAF Reserve Pipe Band tartan as listed in the Registry. There is no other tartan in the Registry that is listed as USAF Reserve Pipe Band, so I don't know what you mean by "two distinct thread counts" - if someone looked up the USAF Reserve Pipe Band tartan in the Registry, they would find _only one sett_. So, my weaver didn't make a mistake. They wove exactly what the Registry says they should weave for that tartan.