Significance of white in a tartan

[OC Richard]

I think we are going to need need some fairly complex Venn diagrams...

This little gem is from the BBC - Today, the colours identify religion as red and green tartans represent Catholics and the blue represents Protestants. The divide is important in Scotland as one can identify people's religion by what colour tartan is worn.

Wow. I'm writing all this nonsense down, we're getting a fairly sizeable list already. Keep them coming!!

Now, colours do have liturgical meaning, but Catholics and Protestants use the same colours to signify the same thing: the seasons of the church calendar.



Isle of Skye tartan, being largely green and purple, fits nicely.

[Father Bill]

Roman Catholics and some protestants use them that way. Not all. Some totally ignore their traditional significations.

[OC Richard]

Roman Catholics and some protestants use them that way. Not all. Some totally ignore their traditional significations.

To be clear, I didn't say all Protestants. My point was that the colours have the same significance for both; there are "Catholic colours" and "Protestant colours".

Many of the "mainline" denominations use liturgical colours in some form or other, though it can vary church-by-church within the same denomination.

In our Catholic parish we show up one Sunday and the trappings have been changed, there's nothing more to it.

However a local Presbyterian church has a special service to mark the beginning of Advent, during which a guy ceremoniously removes the Pastor's green stole and puts on a purple one, and the trappings are changed, while music plays.

Indeed not all Catholic churches have that stuff- there's one here that just meets in a portable, there are no trappings, vestments, pews, organ, choir, or altar (communion is done with a folding table). You never know!

[Troglodyte]

Wow. I'm writing all this nonsense down, we're getting a fairly sizeable list already. Keep them coming!!

Now, colours do have liturgical meaning, but Catholics and Protestants use the same colours to signify the same thing: the seasons of the church calendar.



Isle of Skye tartan, being largely green and purple, fits nicely.

Just think of the fun you could have devising a new 'clergy' tartan.

None of the old two-tone black-and-white stuff of the old days, but more 'Joseph and His Technicolour Dreamcoat'.

High Days and Holy Days would be a riot of colour!

[OC Richard]

Just think of the fun you could have devising a new 'clergy' tartan.

None of the old two-tone black-and-white stuff of the old days, but more 'Joseph and His Technicolour Dreamcoat'.

High Days and Holy Days would be a riot of colour!

Yes let's consider this for a moment. If you follow the proportions on the liturgical colour pie chart the main colours would be green (Ordinary Time) and purple (Lent and Advent) with some white (Easter, Christmas, etc).

As it happens there's a tartan which follows this, and my favourite tartan to wear at church gigs it is.



About the brown, who can say.

(Yes I know that Advent is supposed to be blue, but I can't recall seeing a church with a set of blue vestments and altar cloths, instead using their purple Lent vestments and altar cloths for both.)

(And yes I know the "white" stripe in Isle of Skye is supposed to be "grey" but it looks white to me.)

[FossilHunter]

Yes let's consider this for a moment. If you follow the proportions on the liturgical colour pie chart the main colours would be green (Ordinary Time) and purple (Lent and Advent) with some white (Easter, Christmas, etc).

As it happens there's a tartan which follows this, and my favourite tartan to wear at church gigs it is.



About the brown, who can say.

(Yes I know that Advent is supposed to be blue, but I can't recall seeing a church with a set of blue vestments and altar cloths, instead using their purple Lent vestments and altar cloths for both.)

(And yes I know the "white" stripe in Isle of Skye is supposed to be "grey" but it looks white to me.)

But what do you wear on Gaudete Sunday? ;)

[Father Bill]

But what do you wear on Gaudete Sunday? ;)

…and Laetere Sunday!

[RGM1]

Awesome outfit, well done.

[OC Richard]

But what do you wear on Gaudete Sunday? ;)

https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/ta...ails?ref=11967

[FossilHunter]

https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/ta...ails?ref=11967

I suppose I was asking for that! ;)