Can anyone identify these two tartans?

[imrichmond]

I guess I need a better monitor. Stare as I might, I can't see all the lines in that Black Stewart kilt. On my monitor, a 23" Gateway, it just looks like a greatly simplified version of the tartan. Maybe I just need better computer glasses.

Just as an aside, who are the Property Brothers? Here in BC we have the Property Guys, a sell-it-yourself real estate franchise. Are these Brothers in the same kind of business?

[Tobus]

Property Brothers is a very popular television show on the Home & Garden channel (HGTV). They are twins, if you couldn't tell. One of them is a real estate guy, the other does home improvement. They work together to help buyers choose a bargain house that needs repair, then they fix it up. This style of home improvement television is popular these days.

http://www.hgtv.com/shows/property-brothers

[imrichmond]

Thanks for the info, Tobus. I don't have cable TV (don't watch TV), so I'm not aware of what programs are popular these days.

[Dollander]

So the question is, why do they have someone running the Clan Scott FB page who isn't familiar with the Scott tartans?

Or maybe this person really doesn't understand how tartans work, and thinks any tartan worn by a Scott somehow becomes a Scott tartan? Then based on the contents of my closet, congratulations to any MacNaughtons, MacCallums, and Malcolms: you're all Murrays now.

[Bruce Scott]

Perhaps it was a case of wishful thinking. I did query the remark but there's been no response.

Many thanks to all who have assisted in identifying the tartans.

[Steve Ashton]

This Scott Tartan is listed with the Scottish Register of Tartan as #3688.



The description -

This is the most popular Scott tartan in modern times. Earliest reference possibly 1829 in a letter from Sir Thomas Dick Lauder to Sir Walter Scott in which he tells Scott that he had seen this tartan in a manuscript prepared for the brothers John Sobieski and Charles Edward Stuart. Scott rejected the idea very firmly. Jamie Scarlett MBE pointed out (April 2006) that it was interesting that the tartan for Rob Roy MacGregor's greatest publicist - Scott seemed to owe its origins to the Clan Gregor tartan of 1819.

There are then 16 additional Designs on the Registry.
https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/az?searchString=S

[Terry Searl]

This Scott Tartan is listed with the Scottish Register of Tartan as #3688.



The description -

This is the most popular Scott tartan in modern times. Earliest reference possibly 1829 in a letter from Sir Thomas Dick Lauder to Sir Walter Scott in which he tells Scott that he had seen this tartan in a manuscript prepared for the brothers John Sobieski and Charles Edward Stuart. Scott rejected the idea very firmly. Jamie Scarlett MBE pointed out (April 2006) that it was interesting that the tartan for Rob Roy MacGregor's greatest publicist - Scott seemed to owe its origins to the Clan Gregor tartan of 1819.

There are then 16 additional Designs on the Registry.
https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/az?searchString=S

As usual Steve your your grasp of tartans is not just a personal opinion but very thorough in the components of how a tartan is is built. Thankyou for your knowledge and the respectful way you explain it

[Bruce Scott]

This Scott Tartan is listed with the Scottish Register of Tartan as #3688.



The description -

This is the most popular Scott tartan in modern times. Earliest reference possibly 1829 in a letter from Sir Thomas Dick Lauder to Sir Walter Scott in which he tells Scott that he had seen this tartan in a manuscript prepared for the brothers John Sobieski and Charles Edward Stuart. Scott rejected the idea very firmly. Jamie Scarlett MBE pointed out (April 2006) that it was interesting that the tartan for Rob Roy MacGregor's greatest publicist - Scott seemed to owe its origins to the Clan Gregor tartan of 1819.

There are then 16 additional Designs on the Registry.
https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/az?searchString=S

I chose that tartan for my kilt. At the Scott gatherings I attended in Australia the Scott Green tartan was more popular.