Tartans Worn As Tribute

[Ninehostages]

Balmoral is then a "private" family pattern and therefore is not in the public domain. There are loads of those. I was looking at a Tartan registry recently and I was wondering who/what I might find under the letter "Z". There is a local media impresario here named Moses Zniamer who lo and behold had commissioned a tartan for himself that, of course is not in the public domain. I suppose you can argue that Macintosh is also a private family pattern but ...

My own heritage connecting no further back than my grandparents indicates that I should wear one of six major tartan patterns (one of which is Macintosh). Another one is Stewart. Now, there is hardly a square yard of dry ground on this Earth that does not have spiders or something with a Royal Stewart tartan on it. It is a nice tartan. I am not likely to wear it just because there are so many other Stewart variants that I find are so beautiful. Royal Stewart is definitely in the public domain as is Macintosh. We even had a brand of toffee that was sold like chocolate bars around here when I was a child that were wrapped in the Macintosh tartan. Why not? If that insults a Macintosh, so would all sorts of other minutae and I wouldn't even bother answering the miserable old ...

[FossilHunter]

What do you do if your heritage doesn't happen to be Scottish? Levi Strauss...?

"No tartan for you! Wear this Italian table cloth, instead."

By the way, you may have difficulty getting someone to weave Balmoral for you ... unless they're selling it on Alibaba, these days.

I’ve always been somewhat surprised that the Pakistani weavers have never attempted to produce balmoral tartan for sale. Some firms have produced unlicensed copies of other private tartans.

For some reason I doubt that it’s respect for tradition that stops them. Maybe they don’t think it would sell if people are aware of what it is.

[Riverkilt]

What do you do if your heritage doesn't happen to be Scottish? Levi Strauss...?

"No tartan for you! Wear this Italian table cloth, instead."

Ahh, the MacMedic tartan. Proudly worn by medics.



Ironically, with Macdonald Lord of the Isles

[kiltedsawyer]

Ahh, the MacMedic tartan. Proudly worn by medics.

Funny, I always thought that was Dress Rob Roy MacGregor.

Cheers,

David

[Ninehostages]

I'd heard "Clan Bumby" ...

[Riverkilt]

Quien Sabe? The story I heard (I'm sure someone can tell it better) was that there were some EMTs working a highland games and they grabbed a tablecloth to fashion into a makeshift kilt and it stuck. Forget the name of the guy wearing it, was part of the rabble for a while. Think he was a medic and that's why he wore it.

Maybe someone has more information? But don't mean to hijack the thread.

[McMurdo]

Quien Sabe? The story I heard (I'm sure someone can tell it better) was that there were some EMTs working a highland games and they grabbed a tablecloth to fashion into a makeshift kilt and it stuck. Forget the name of the guy wearing it, was part of the rabble for a while. Think he was a medic and that's why he wore it.

Maybe someone has more information? But don't mean to hijack the thread.

I think his handle was MacMedic. Might be able to find the thread about that tartan that way.

[OC Richard]

There's an Ambulance Service tartan:

https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/ta...tails?ref=3706

[Crazy Dave]

There's an Ambulance Service tartan:

https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/ta...tails?ref=3706

I definitely prefer this tartan!

Dave

[Ninehostages]

... no spaghetti sauce stains!