The Scottish Register of Tartans
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The Scottish Register of Tartans
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#2As a Scot, I was slightly surprised to see that this is actually an official Scottish Government service!
Edit: I should have guessed by the domain.
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#3This was on the 99 Percent Invisible episode this week. A great episode about tartans.
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/plaid-articles-of-int...
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#4Funny thing, there are registered tartans for Mars exploration and Earth preservation activities.
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#5The good thing about this, is it puts tartans into a modern IPR context and sheds the Walter Scott fake history. It's no different to burberry trademarking it's red flash check. All the clan/sept/hunting/dress stuff is a giant fantasy of post Regency construction.
Harris Tweed on the other hand, is much more a "thing" and deserves its restricted mark for heritage reasons.
Cornish sailors knitting patterns next!
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#6Out of curiosity I checked out the "New Tartans" page. The most recent item is:
https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails?ref=12260
which, sadly, seems to have been registered on behalf of a white supremacist cult.
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#7The good thing about this, is it puts tartans into a modern IPR context and sheds the Walter Scott fake history. It's no different to burberry trademarking it's red flash check. All the clan/sept/hunting/dress stuff is a giant fantasy of post Regency construction. Harris Tweed on the other hand, is much more a "thing" and deserves its restricted mark for heritage reasons. Cornish sailors knitting patterns next!
Yeah - a lot of traditions were "revived" (i.e. invented) for the visit of King George IV to Scotland:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visit_of_King_George_IV_to_Sco...
Which is ironic given the almost ethnic cleaning levels of treatment given to Highlanders and their culture following the '45 and the later Clearances:
Re: The Scottish Register of Tartans
#8The good thing about this, is it puts tartans into a modern IPR context and sheds the Walter Scott fake history. It's no different to burberry trademarking it's red flash check. All the clan/sept/hunting/dress stuff is a giant fantasy of post Regency construction. Harris Tweed on the other hand, is much more a "thing" and deserves its restricted mark for heritage reasons. Cornish sailors knitting patterns next!
Well, sugar and palm oil bottlers Nutella have just cranked up the computers to provide unique designs in every jar, e.g. https://www.nutella.com/en/au/uniquenutella (heavy, possibly slow)
Pampered, we are.
Re: The Scottish Register of Tartans
#9Out of curiosity I checked out the "New Tartans" page. The most recent item is: https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails?ref=12260 which, sadly, seems to have been registered on behalf of a white supremacist cult.
Dunno why you're getting downvoted, seems factual:
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#10As a Scot, I was slightly surprised to see that this is actually an official Scottish Government service! Edit: I should have guessed by the domain.
As much as a lot of tartan-lore is revisionist, selling pretty cloth to credulous tourists and Americans-craving-heritage is big business.