Wisconsin Tartan

[Wulfestieg]

Okay, the kilted badger is just plain cool.

I may currently live in Minnesota, but I'm a born and bred 'Sconnie boy, and it's good to see the old state catching up to the others who have declared a state tartan. It's not a bad tartan, either. Though I must say, I'm a tad surprised they didn't just use the UW in Scotland tartan.

[macwilkin]

Okay, the kilted badger is just plain cool.

I may currently live in Minnesota, but I'm a born and bred 'Sconnie boy, and it's good to see the old state catching up to the others who have declared a state tartan. It's not a bad tartan, either. Though I must say, I'm a tad surprised they didn't just use the UW in Scotland tartan.

It appears that the Wisconsin in Scotland tartan is a corporate/university tartan for UW extension campus in Dalkeith:

http://www.tartans.scotland.net/tart...tartan_id=1473

Maybe the university wouldn't allow it? Or perhaps the various Scottish organisations in WI liked this one better? Usually several designs are submitted and then voted upon by members or a committee representing the state's Scottish community.

Cheers,

Todd

[bubba]

I'm not going to expect a great deal from this. Heck, the newspaper here won't even mention Tartan Day. Instead they say running political ads is more important.

[GMan]

Somehow Bubba, I think that you could single handedly change that. Shoot maybe they will run you for office and you could really shake things up!

[Sherry]

State Tartan To Replace Cheesehead?

Wisconsin Legislators To Pick State Plaid Design



POSTED: 12:46 pm CST January 11, 2006
UPDATED: 1:01 pm CST January 11, 2006


MADISON, Wis. -- Some bloggers say it's a waste of time and fabric. But, state legislators apparently don't think so.

A legislative committee held a hearing Wednesday on a bill that designates an official state tartan, a plaid design of Scottish origin. Thirty-six other states apparently already have such designs.

Wisconsin has an official dog (American water spaniel), tree (sugar maple), and even a peace symbol (mourning dove). So why not a state-sanctioned plaid pattern?

Representative Suzanne Jeskewitz of Menomonee Falls introduced the bill on behalf of the St. Andrews Society, a Scottish group.

The Wisconsin design incorporates colors representing its natural resources and industries: yellow for dairy and its brewing heritage, green for the northern pines, blue for the state's 15-thousand lakes, red for the Badgers. And where yellow meets green? The Green Bay Packers, of course.

Bob McWilliam of the St. Andrews Society says the tartan would be a way to show Wisconsin pride without putting on a cheesehead.
http://www.channel3000.com/news/6003...s=c3k&psp=news

[starbkjrus]

Oh well, I was beaten to the punch on this one. There is a picture of this in the Compendium of District Tartans and it's quite nice. Good luck in the Wisconsin Legislature.

[philbo]

This is great! I'll have to tell my family members who live in Wisconsin. Not that they wear kilts (yet) but perhaps they can hook me up with a few yards of that fabric.