Hi folks!

What an amazing feeling, reading thru this thread!

Sporranlegionaire, I like your design! I'd suggest using the traditional garter belt to encircle the emblem, perhaps?

And that motto, "By choice, not blood" is simply excellent!

As for the "clan/not a clan" commentary, well.... sociologists have been discussing the way the Internet has enabled people from every country to find like-minded people and form a 'community'... they aren't classified as a "group" because they are united by a shared purpose, a shared sense of belonging, and a shared sense of identity. I think X-Markers qualify as a community in the sociological sense, and if that's not a clan, I don't know what is!

Now... about that xmarks cloth?

cheers
Hachiman