Quote Originally Posted by Phil View Post
On a not unrelated subject - http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/ne...get.6770276.jp - we can earnestly hope that this might help to restore the Royal Mile to normality from the "tartan bazaar" it has become of late. I somehow doubt it, however, particularly if the chief perpetrators - Gold Bros - actually own their premises.
That's a step in the right direction... difficult as it may be to define just what "tat" is, and so forth.

As I've said before, I think there should be legislation protecting certain items as "Scottish Cultural Items" and banning importation for resale, to protect Scottish sporranmakers, kiltmakers, kilt jacket makers, and pipemakers from the flood of imported junk.

If the lawmakers don't wake up soon there won't be any of these craftspeople left.

(This would not prevent a Scottish piper from buying a set of American-made pipes for his own use, or prevent a Scottish kiltwearer from buying a Canadian-made sporran for his own use.)

Sorry Matt and other non-Scots who are making kilts etc of the highest quality- but I feel that the local Scottish craftspeople MUST be protected before they all disappear.