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While the existence of Scottish clans can be traced to ancient history, clan tartans are relatively modern. Identification of clan tartans began in the late 18th century and was finally formalized... Tags: surname scottish tartans clans
What is a tartan? Tartan is a woven material, generally of wool, having stripes of different colours and varying in breadth. The arrangement of colours is alike in warp and weft -- that is, in length and width -- and when woven, has the ap...
The tartan has been adopted by other nations for a variety of reasons. Austria has the Austrian tartan. The Canadians have the Canadian Centennial Tartan'; this is used as a 'national' tartan for all Canadians regardless of ancestry . Franc...
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Anyone can wear any tartan there is no legal restriction on anything. No one in the UK would produce a Balmoral tartan for anyone other than the Royal Family and there is the odd "personal" tartan that the manufacturers wont make ...
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_can_wear_your_scottish_ta...
As a form of National dress and pride in the history of their country, it also identifies clans in modern times. Descendants from North America have fuelled much of the growth in the Scottish Tartan industry. However originally tartan and t...
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_do_Scots_wear_tartans
Yes some towns do have their own tartan. The Aberdden tartan is one of the oldest district tartans. The first documentary evidence for Aberdeen tartan dates to 1794 when an order was noted in the books of Wilson's of Bannockburn for the tar...
http://www.blurtit.com/q787042.html
No, it was earlier than that, but still a recent thing. Up until the early 1800s most clans did not have "their" pattern, they just wore whatever their local weavers made. And we do not call them "tartans", that is a Fre...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061014024...
I live in Scotland, the site below is useful for finding the tartan you are looking for, not a brilliant site I know but it does the job, remember that all Scottish names do not neccesarily have a tartan. http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081009080...
Tartan is commercially produced the main producer being Scotland. Any person can purchase many of the tartans with the exception of the restricted tartans. (See restricted tartans).
http://www.houseoftartans.com.au/faq.html
No, not necessarily. There are many clan tartans which, of course, identify many Scottish family names. There are also general and district tartatns. Tartans such as the Jacobite, Caledonia, Hunting Stewart and even the Black Watch are cons...
http://www.tartanrugkits.com/faq.htm
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