Quote Originally Posted by gilmore View Post
Joseph Maxwell-Stuart, a descendant of Bonnie Prince Charlie?

Jesus and Mary's 'Celto-Hebraic' lineage ?

Jesus' grandmother being buried near Fortingal?

Sir William St. Clair (third and last Prince of Orkney)?

the Sinclair bloodline can be traced back to Jesus and Mary Magdalene?

Scotland's part in the unfolding story of the Holy Grail?

It's sad to see Scots stooping to this level just to sell tartan. But worse, this story comes from an imperialistic, anti-Semitic 19th century theory that Britons were the true biological descendants of the Jews, that contemporary Jews were interlopers, and that as God's chosen people the British had a divine right to exand their empire and bring Christianity to the heathen.
Historically kilt makers just randomly made tartans before any family has specified names associating them with specific tartan. The merchants would have a plaid made and they would just pick a name and say for example "this is the MacDougal Tartan" knowing that by saying so the MacDougal family for instance would think to themselves "Well I better buy it then, and that way everyone in our clan can have matching tartans." but the tartan maker still owned the rights to make it for anyone even though they marketed it to one specific family.

This Da Vinci tartan is just another marketing tactic, but I'm not offended by them creating it after something like this. There is a Shrek tartan for instance, just because people will buy it because it has to do with Shrek. this type of marketing has been going on for many generations and will continue to do so. I wouldn't think that Scotland has stooped to a low level by creating this tartan for some marketing ploy, honestly it's tradition.

Just my two cents.