Tartan Day NYC 2025: Carnegie Hall Event

[OC Richard]

What tartan do they wear? Was it custom designed for the band?

Yes, it's a bespoke tartan designed for the band when they were called "Pipers' Trail Pipes & Drums".

https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/ta...ails?ref=11049

Personally I think they should have gone with the 50th Edinburgh Military Tattoo tartan, which would make for more colourful uniforms

https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/ta...tails?ref=4960

The CGI Tartan Register image certainly doesn't do this tartan justice, it's beautiful, take a look https://www.edintattoo.co.uk/news/we...-tattoo-tartan

The Pipers Trail tartan is dark blue with narrow white stripes, and the band's doublets are dark blue with narrow white piping.

It's always nice to have a contrast between the jackets and the kilts.

[jsrnephdoc]

Yes, it's a bespoke tartan designed for the band when they were called "Pipers' Trail Pipes & Drums".

https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/ta...ails?ref=11049

Personally I think they should have gone with the 50th Edinburgh Military Tattoo tartan, which would make for more colourful uniforms

https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/ta...tails?ref=4960

The CGI Tartan Register image certainly doesn't do this tartan justice, it's beautiful, take a look https://www.edintattoo.co.uk/news/we...-tattoo-tartan

The Pipers Trail tartan is dark blue with narrow white stripes, and the band's doublets are dark blue with narrow white piping.

It's always nice to have a contrast between the jackets and the kilts.

I'll guess you already know this, but if you search for a tartan by name on the STA website, then click on its small placeholder image, you'll get a much larger image that yields a far more detailed impression of what it would look like "in the cloth." Here's the result of that for Peter MacDonald's 50th Anniversary tartan:

At the moment, I'm exploring a "Robertson (Struan)" variant that I find much more pleasing than the "stoplight red" most common "Robertson" red. While the pattern is quite different from the 50th Anniversary tattoo tartan, the color palette is similar, and I think MUCH more interesting than the usual Robertson Red:

My guess is that this pattern could be exploited for VERY handsome kilts pleated to the stripe. Unfortunately, however, it seems THIS Robertson variant is woven primarily (if not ONLY) by DC Dalgliesh, and they seem just to have exited the business of weaving/selling tartan!

Of course, with your trained graphic designer eye you might point out that this might require VERY brilliant red (NO WAY) or green (possible), or (more likely) blue Argyll jackets for pairing.

Any thoughts on that?