Scottish Burns Tartan?

[Tim Little]

So I was recently perusing the National Geographic Store catalog the other day and came across this rather handsome-looking scarf:



According to the write-up:

Scotland celebrates the 250th birthday of the national bard, Robert Burns, with the nationwide celebration Scotland Homecoming 2009. This red and green plaid is the latest to be added to the Scottish Register of Tartans, the official recordkeepers of historical clan and military tartans....

However, I can't find any sign of it in Register of Tartans database....

Just a case of creative marketing, or is there an interesting story here?

[figheadair]

We have it on the STA Master Db (not publically available) where the entry states:

Commissioned by the National Trust for Scotland from Johnstons (of Elgin) and deigned by John Gillespie of Johnstons to mark the 250th Anniversary of Burns' birth which coincides with the 2009 Homecoming event designed to attract Scots from around the world to visit the 'homeland.' The colours represent various of Burns' poems - 'the red red rose', the crystal stream', 'the amber bead', 'the blue-eyed lassie' ,'green grow the rushes' and 'the hodden grey.'

To maintain a link with the past, the Hodden grey and soft green which were part of the original Burns Check designed to celebrate Burns' Centenary in 1959, have been incorporated in the central repeat of this pattern.

[Tim Little]

Excellent; thanks for the info!