Post your tartan

[PhoenixAzul]

Well, my mom's family is considered "Ulster Scot" (scotch irish). She's a mix of Cumming (her dad) and Stewart (her mom). Since I'm living in Ulster (Northern Ireland), about an hour from Scotland, I'm planning on spending half-term (spring break) in Scotland doing a wee bit of backpacking. I thought a great gift to bring back would be some tartan of both clans for my mom and my grandfather. I would love for my pop to wear a kilt to my wedding but I doubt it will happen.

So, if you are Scotch or Ulster Scot, post your family tartan!

Cumming
(cumming hunting ancient)


Stewart
(stewart hunting)

[adpiucf]

I couldn't resist...

[Lady Pi Phi]

This is my Tartan

http://clan.com/tartanfinder.html?se...ch:id=c6xuzrHD

[bcdphie]

MacKinnon (of Skye) - my family clan

Dress


Hunting


Blackstock - married name

Dress


Hunting

[alum]

I have no tartans for my family however.....

Behold the Carnegie tartan, the official fabric of Carnegie Mellon University! We use the Carnegie Ancient (top one). Our school teams are called the Tartans and our school crest is the stylized thistle (similar to the one in the link below) superimposed over a Carnegie tartan circle.

http://clan.com/tartanfinder.html?se...%27Carnegie%27

[MysticCat]

Originally posted by PhoenixAzul
So, if you are Scotch or Ulster Scot, post your family tartan!

Many thanks for using Ulster Scots rather than Scotch-Irish, but, please, Scots or Scottish, not Scotch. Scotch is something you drink (whiskey) or eat (Scotch eggs). People are Scots or Scottish.

McLeod of Harris:

[bcdphie]

My husband's family is from Northern Ireland, but are of Scottish decent. The only problem is, I find most people have no clue what I am talking about why I say Ulster, and it is such a mouthfull to say Northern Irish. And it gets more confusing to say they are Irish, but not Republican Irish.

I like that term, Ulster-Scot.

[MysticCat]

Originally posted by bcdphie
And it gets more confusing to say they are Irish, but not Republican Irish.

Indeed, not Irish at all. They are descendants of Scots who settled in Ulster, but the Scots and the Irish (and the English) all kept pretty much to themselves in northern Ireland.

[honeychile]

My main tartan is the Hunter clan, and this is the modern tartan:



We are a sept under the Royal Stewart Clan:

Ancient Stewart:


Modern Stewart:


So those are the major tartans I can wear (legitimately).

[BetteDavisEyes]

My husband's mom side of the family hail from Scotland so he's half Scot. I have seen their family tartan as they are Clan Montgomery but have no picture to share. I did go to his cousins wedding where all the men wore their kilts & it was a lot of fun!

[lifesaver]

I am half ulster-scots.

I have never researched the family tartan. I am sure its there. The family was very proud of being scottish.

There is also a Texas Tartan. The offical Tartan of the state of Texas, and is called "Bluebonnet"

[JenMarie]

MacGregor:
http://clan.com/tartanfinder.html?se...27MacGregor%27



Modern



Ancient

[bcdphie]

Originally posted by lifesaver
There is also a Texas Tartan. The offical Tartan of the state of Texas, and is called "Bluebonnet"

We have the same thing here, North of the 49th - Canada has an official tartan, as does each Province and Territory (except Nunavat).





1.Maple leaf *
2. Newfoundland *
3. Prince Edward Island
4. Nova Scotia
5. New Brunswick
6. Quebec *
7. Ontario
8. Manitoba
9. Saskatchewan
10. Alberta
11.British Columbia
12. Northwest Territories
13. Yukon *

* not official tartans


British Columbia

The province's tartan was designed by Earl K. Ward of Victoria and officially approved by the British Columbia Centennial Committee for the 1966-67 Centenaries. Represented in the design are the blue of the Pacific Ocean, the green of the forests, the red of the maple leaf, the white of the dogwood floral emblem, and the gold of the crown and sun in the provincial arms.

[aephi alum]

Originally posted by MysticCat81
McLeod of Harris:

Me too! Only it's MacLeod

[honeychile]

Some bits and pieces:

-I went to a wedding this summer with the groom and the bagpiper in kilts. The women in front of us were whispering how disgusting it was that the tartans didn't match! I wanted to smack the one particularly obnoxious one, and explain that one ONLY wears one's own tartan!! And at about $600 a kilt, there's good sense to that!

-One of my favorite professors wrote his name on the blackboard on the first day of class: Macleod. He then said, "Whomever can first tell me how to pronounce my name correctly will have their grade raised one letter up." Lots of hands went up, but I won: Mack-Cloud. Thank you, fellow Scotsmen!!

-The Scottish crests and tartans are of the very few nationalities which legitimately allows married women to keep their own tartan & crest. One can wear 5-6 tartans at the same time, if you have that many Scottish lineages. You can see that mix in both Rob Roy and Braveheart.

-The first time I went to a Clan Gathering, my mother & I were given pins which were our Clan insignia - emphasis that they were NOT our crests, but our Clan insignia. Our crest is on a dagger, about 4-5" long, and no, I cannot wear it on a plane! But the first time I wore it to church, my pastor (whose family is also Southern) said, "That's an interesting pin - what is it?" I proudly said, "That's my Clan insignia!" He looked hard at me and exclaimed, "You're in the Klan?!" We still laugh about that!

-Women do not wear kilts, men do. Women wear a badge of the tartan, or a sash. This is a good thing for women, as a well made kilt costs upward of $600!!

-If you'd like to see your tartan, just put "(Your Scots Surname)* tartan" in a search engine, and chances are, you'll find it! I only know about the sept (branch) and clan because of genealogy.

-People are not Scottish, they are Scots. Items they own are Scottish.