Playing around with some new tartan designs

[figheadair]

Thank you I appreciate this information. While we appear to have been lucky with my father's tartan, my mother has expressed a desire to be honored in the same way, so I was wondering if there was a set of rules. But it sounds like we'll have to take our chances that it might not be approved.

That's it in a nutshell. I had a look at the 'advice' on the Register' webpage. It's a bit wishy-washy!

How to apply to register a tartan
To apply to register a tartan, you need to have designed a unique tartan for which you must provide a threadcount, an image and a proposed tartan name. We strongly advise you to submit an application to register your tartan before having it woven to ensure it meets the criteria for registration.

Criteria for registration
The Scottish Register of Tartans Act has established clear criteria for the inclusion of a tartan in the Register:

a new tartan must meet the definition of tartan contained in the Scottish Register of Tartans Act (2008)
it must be a new design, unique to the Register, and
there must be a clear link between the person registering the tartan and the proposed tartan name.

Actualy, it has to be more that a new design, unique to the Register , it has to be unique, period. We've had a couple of instances when the registration staff were content because an old design wasn't on The Register and so their view was that a new design would met the criterion in the Act. Clearly that is flawed in that individuals might therefore assume that their design was unquie whereas it wasn't in such a case.