Quote Originally Posted by Tobus View Post
I'd imagine he just wants it to remain his own personal family branch tartan, without any way for someone else to steal it and start wearing it just because they like the colours. If I were ever to design my own tartan for my family (which I have no intention of doing), I'd probably do the same. It may not be ultimate protection, but it's a simple way of keeping the tartan 'pure' and unique to the people it was intended for.
I guess my thought are that with the price of a custom weave, it seems fairly unlikely that someone would go the the expense to rip off someone's private design, ESPECIALLY if there was no online register of it- (ie, if your private tartan wasn't displayed online at all it would be nearly impossible for someone to just 'steal' the design and have it custom woven, even a tartan as simple as this one).

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