From Coat of Arms to Tartan: The Cadilhac Case.

[OC Richard]

My foremost inspiration is my family's coat of arms:



I designed the following tartan, based in particular on Québec's tartan:



(https://www.scotweb.co.uk/tartandesign/design/86306)

This confuses me. You say your foremost inspiration is that coat of arms, but then say your tartan is based on Quebec's.

Seems to me the options are

1) base a tartan on that coat of arms
2) base a tartan on Quebec's tartan
3) make a tartan combining elements of the two (which is what I think you did)

For to me, the coat of arms and the Quebec tartan are miles apart.

(The Quebec tartan)



I can see the value of fusing the coat of arms with an existing tartan (even though the two seem unrelated visually) because going directly from the coat of arms to tartan, a literal reading of the coat of arms in tartan terms, leads to a design that's not very attractive:



or