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Hi Mr. MacDougall,
That's a good question! I hope I can explain the answer...
The Army tartan is a privately owned tartan (jointly between Alexis Malcolm and Strathmore) that I had to pay to use. Well, I didn't HAVE to pay them if I could find a mill that didn't respect the rules of the Scottish Tartans Authority, but I wanted to keep everything on the "up and up". I only did this special run of Army tartan for members of XMARKS and once it's gone, it's gone.
Other military tartans are woven (with or without permission, I don't know) in Cotton Poly, not PV. Even if a company SAYS it's PV, many times it's not. The other military tartans are not available in PV (unless someone else had a special run done of another military tartan that I'm not aware of).
I hope this helps explain why we only have the Army tartan and NOT the Coast Guard, Leatherneck, Air Force or Navy (or thurso, or SeaBees or armed forces, or...).
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