I traded emails with a website that sold tartan material, and was told that the Bledsoe name was of Cornish history, and supplied me with the Cornish National tartan. Perhaps I had a laps in mental function and tried to connect Cornwall and Welsh lands. If that be the case then we may consider this the end of this thread. But now I'm curious about this "fringe" area. Is it a term to describe an area that covers certain bands of people? Or something different?