Being a Native Texan I dont find the Texas Lone Star that attractive. Red is not my color for the most part and that tartan has too much red. I wont get into the discussion about national or regional adoption by a state and individual control of the tartan or of the meaning of the colors uses, though the yellow had me perplexed at first until I read about it. Im not sure I would add a color that was fringe on a flag, and not all flags have such fringe.

Myself I have a German Heritage "tank", the tartan designed by Rocky and sewn by Bonnie. I do like the colors and the meaning of the tartan because I am of German Heritage. It is a red, and not too much of it, that I can wear well and it does give me some identity not being Scottish or of a Scottish clan. With that in mind I looked at my own heritage which comes from Germany and settled in the Texas Hill Country in the 1800's. I have most my ancestors traced back to being Germans so Im pretty much no mutt. When I started wearing kilts I had my tank made of the German Heritage but I also wanted my own identity, or clan affiliation. With that in mind I created 2 tartans, of which neither have yet been weaved, and did use colors of German and Texas flags. Im not a big huge Nationalist but I do like my heritage as I find all the Scots here do. So the two I made are a dress tartan and a hunting tartan named for my name and my heritage.

Hoffman Texas German



Hoffman Texas German Hunting. I think this would be great in muted or ancient colors.





I do find it interesting why people choose the colors they do in newer tartans. I guess my choices were easy, it was just arranging them in a pleasant looking way. My thanks to Rocky for his fine design on the German Heritage, I wear it proudly.