Scotland's Forged Tartans

[Bugbear]

I wonder to which tartans this are referring.

I didn't realize chiefs register tartans with the Lyon Court, I thought it was just arms and such. That changes my view of clan tartans if the case.

[figheadair]

I didn't realize chiefs register tartans with the Lyon Court, I thought it was just arms and such. That changes my view of clan tartans if the case.

Very few clan tartans are registered with the Lyon Court. The practice started under Malcolm Innes of Learney and included a number of Canadian tartans about the same time - the 60s & 70s mainly. The trouble is that Lyon is not an expert on tartan and so recorded things that he was given by the chiefs who themselves did not necessarily know what they were talking about. Best left to those that know what they are talking about.