What tartan is your kilt?

[tg]

Mine's Black Watch, with Dress Black Watch for the tie and my wife's sash.

[Mikimouse]

1. Clan Gordon...White and Light Green

n/t

[Richardo]

2. This one...

[ieoeja]

3. Generic Hunters Kilt

But then I'm not really Scottish.

[jpgray]

4. The Gray family tartan

[ohiosmith]

5. The ancient Smith naturally.

[roguevalley]

14. Me too. Smiths of Newpitslago, Aberdeenshire. :) Or possibly

Clan Chattan.

[alexwcovington]

6. MacLeod of Harris

[geniph]

9. Are you serious?

My husband is also a MacLeod of Harris. Maybe you're related!

[alexwcovington]

12. Maybe

In some distant way.

[BurtWorm]

7. The Worm chartreuse and chocolate

:shrug:

[Blue-Jay]

8. I also have a Black Watch kilt.

One of these too. Family tartan:



EDIT: Better image link

[Westegg]

10. Clan MacBean and Clan MacIntyre...

...the former hail from the valley of the Nairn and Strathdearn, and their badge is Craobh aighbn (boxwood). The latter have been known in Glenoe since the 1300s. Their badge is Fraoch gorm (heath) and their war cry is "Cruachan."

I have a wonderful neck-tie from my great-great-grandfather McVean (MacBean) that's got the family tartan on it and is over a hundred years old. Two moth-holes in it, but I wear it proudly.

[pagerbear]

11. Clan Duncan

[Blue-Jay]

13. Good to see so many Scots here, BTW. Any family still there?

I still have a few in Dunblane, that I occasionally am in contact with. Good people. I haven't been to see them since 1989, though. :(

An aside: I lost a young, distant relative in the 1996 shooting incident at Dunblane Primary School. He was, like, a tenth cousin or some such. Brett McKinnnon, aged 6.

[RebelOne]

15. Well, I don't have a kilt, but I have a Black Watch

wall hanging I bought in Scotland. My clan is Stewart.

[Interrobang]

24. You're a Stewart too?

Wow. I was going to post that at the bottom of the thread.

Weirdly enough, my grandfather and father bear a distinct resemblance to Patrick Stewart (Capt. Jean-Luc Picard). :)

[RebelOne]

29. I'm a Stewart on my father's side.

Who knows, maybe I am related to Patrick Stewart also and maybe Martha Stewart. Though I doubt it. Believe it or not, when I was in Great Britain, I checked the phone books and the name Stewart is as common as Smith is here.

[Bridget Burke]

48. "Stewart" is the name of Martha's ex-husband.

Her ancestry is Polish.

[tilsammans]

16. Clan Grant

[Whoa_Nelly]

43. Clan Grant here!!!! Hold Fast!

Am 3rd generation out from Scotland. My grandfather (a Grant) was first generation in US as his dad was from Scotland. Great g-dad married a woman who was from Dutch Frisia off of coast of Denmark.
All Grants are related :-) Interesting online site re: Clan Grant

[tilsammans]

51. Hi, cousin Angel!

You know so much more about your Scottish hertiage than I do about mine. Unfortunately, my knowledge stops at my grandfather, who came to the U.S. from Nova Scotia in the 1890s.

You wouldn't happen to live on the West Coast, would you? Hmmmmm . . .


A toast to all Scots!

:toast:

[NMDemDist2]

17. this one

[Zookeeper]

20. Hey...

after I posted my link, I realized that we match!

[NMDemDist2]

34. why, so we do! hi cuz

:hi:

[Zookeeper]

58. Hi back atcha!

We have a beautiful tartan! :toast:

[Zookeeper]

18. Clan Baird

Here's a peek at my tartan:

http://www.lindaclifford.com/Baird.html

[Mr. McD]

19. Clan Donald here.

:toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast:

[bushisanidiot]

21. MacDonald here too :)

n/t

[CBHagman]

22. Royal Canadian Air Force.

Don't look at me that way. That's the only idea I had, considering my ethnicity (Swedish-Irish-Hungarian, possibly English). Plus I like the Canadians. :-)

[a kennedy]

23. Scottish??? What the H*ll is up with that???

I'm 100% Irish and we have plaid colors too!! Mine just happens to be kinda ugly. Tan with navy blue or some such....does anyone know what the Kennedy plaid looks like??? I've seen it once, and have really forgotten, I just know it's not the most attractive and I'd like another choice. :)

[northzax]

31. you mean this one?

Kennedy Dress:

[a kennedy]

44. northzax: my computer is not picking up your picture.....

Help!! I can't see what you showed me.....

[arbusto_baboso]

25. Cameron of Lochiel for the kilt...

and Ancient Cameron for my tie. AND I have nice enough legs to wear the kilt well, too.

[achtung_circus]

26. Argyle Campbell

now i have to go slaughter MacDonalds, thank you.

[arbusto_baboso]

27. Just stay out of Lochaber, Campbell filth! (I keed!)

[achtung_circus]

33. Keed, forsooth

[Richardo]

40. Och! Me too laddie!

See post #2 above

Now where are those MacDonalds?

[northzax]

28. Wallace, Baby

now has anyone seen my cousin william?

[LizW]

45. Freedom!

Husband's is Wallace, mine is Paterson. :)

[GreenPartyVoter]

30. Here's my hubby's

my family has some too but they are under larger clans.

http://www.scotlandshop.net/designertartanclothing/hendersonancienttartan.php

[guitar man]

32. MacLean

[hyphenate]

35. MacDonald

Clan Ranald, origination: Isle of Skye, Scotland

Family in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia:
Great grandfather was Angus MacDonald, raised in Centennial, Cape Breton

Grandfather was John Archie MacDonald, raised in Long Point, Cape Breton

Mother was Mary Ellen, raised in Long Point, then moved to Boston.

:)

[realisticphish]

36. Stuart

Not scottish, but I do reenacting, and the Jacobites were cool...:)



:hippie:

[Snow]

41. The Jacobites still _are_ cool

and by golly, Elizabeth is not queen, either!
http://www.jacobite.ca/essays/lafosse.htm

[Unperson 309]

37. MacPherson

"Touch nae th' cat bu' a glaive!"

The modern translation "Touch not the cat but a glove" does NOT mean what many think (Don't touch the cat unless you have gloves on") but instead means something a bit different:

"A glaive" means the CAT is "gloved" or has her claws retracted. The actual meaning is closer to "Tocuh not the cat if her claws are out!" or "Touch not the cat unless she has her claws hidden"

Notice that the warning makes no mention of ton wee Moggie's TEETH! :bounce:

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[dolo amber]

38. Clan McAlister

[Snow]

39. ~sigh~ Dunbar

But my family's a sept, by marriage. And yes, you're right, the Dunbars were not at Bannockburn - they (*sob*) opposed The Bruce. At least they're not a bunch of smelly highlanders, though......

[Itchinjim]

42. Burlap.

Potato Sack Irish Burlap.

[TrogL]

46. McIntosh

I'm actually with a sub-clan, but they use the same tartan

[TrogL]

47. OK, I'm wrong

Here it is:

[HEyHEY]

49. Funy story

My Great Aunty Lucy paid a guy to research our Scottish heritage. Tartan and all.... he told her we didn't have a tartan because we were all a bunch of horsethiefs....she was pissed. I stil don't know why she paid a researcher...she was BORN in Scotland.

Mother's side - all the Irish - is blue...I don't know much more

[Bridget Burke]

50. Find your tartan here.

www.houseoftartan.co.uk/index.htm

There's even an interactive "design your own" feature.

Traditional tartans are available in different versions (Modern, Muted, Antique). And they're still being created, for geographical areas (the Irish counties & Canadian provinces), certain groups (the New York Firemen's Pipe Band) & individuals. Here's the Singh tartan, designed for a Sikh gentleman living in Scotland; they're warriors, too:

[Gildor Inglorion]

65. Clan MacKenzie

This one:

[ForrestGump]

52. Always thought it was Gordon, but recently found it was maybe McLaren

Or something like that. Can't quite remember...dark, either way, and it'd match most of my clothes if I ever feel like dressing up like a schoolgirl. Hoots mon....don't get ya sporran in a twist...

[No2W2004]

53. Clan Menzies on my mom's side

[CrownPrinceBandar]

54. Clan Scott on my mom's side.

Supposedly a direct descendant of Sir Walter Scott.

[Aristus]

55. I'm confusingly Anglo-Welsh-Scots-Irish, but I have a clear

relationship to the Stuarts, so my tartan would be Royal Stuart. I'm probably 1,324,845th in line to the throne of England. So show some respect. :-)

[rexcat]

56. Clan MacMillan...

highlander Scots and mortal enemies of the Campbell's

on edit had the incorrect clan listed as our mortal enemies and spelling.

[achtung_circus]

61. So do you eat our soup? nt

[catmandu57]

57. Clan Ramsay

Our Tartan http://www.clanramsay.org/ out of the Dalhousie linage in Edinburgh.

[Cybergata]

59. Hispanics don't usually have tartans...

....but my mother's father was a Blair, so I can actually claim a tartan.

My husband loves his tartan. He wears it around the house, and uses it as a blanket when he naps.
:hippie:

[Bertha Venation]

60. I want a kilt!

If you can reply without laughing, can you tell me how someone who is part Scots from way back can learn what clan she is from?

Note the "without laughing" part . . .

[Bridget Burke]

63. Do you know any last names of your Scottish ancestors?

The Tartan Finder will show you several options for any Scottish name.

www.houseoftartan.co.uk/house/tfinder.htm

Apparently in olden tymes the tartans were more regional than strictly clannish. Tartans for the Scottish Districts are also here. As well as tartans for groups from Amnesty International to the Royal Canadian Air Force.

[Bertha Venation]

64. Thank you! Now: this is just WEIRD:

One of the names is Johnston.

The Johnston Clan tartan is quite similar to the one used for the kilts of my hockey team in high school. Freaky.

[greatauntoftriplets]

62. None, but....

They called her a tart 'an worse!