Why do Scots wear tartan?
It made them easier targets to shoot at in the Battle Of Culloden! :)
(Just kidding)
Harlequin McMaster
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> From: A. Allen McCarley <allen_at_...>
> To: space-marine_at_...
> Subject: Re: [Epic] Clan Tartans
> Date: 29 August 1997 08:06
>
> > >A. Allen McCarley wrote:
> > > I wantd my officers to stand out from the rest of the infantry, so I
> > > left off the usual clan tartan on the right shoulder pad.
> >
> > Aha! You're the one with the tartan! I had a lot of fun painting a
> > Warhound titan named Bulldog in McLeod tartan (o/~ Polka dots just
don't
> > go/ Pointy shoes hurt my toes....) Could you either send me the color
> > schemes for other clans, or post them to the list (should anyone feel
> > crazy enough to follow suit)?
> >
> > Thanks -BC
>
> You know, I had intended to sit down with some source material and answer
> this question seriously. Once I finally found the time, however, I faced
> a very important question: How the *&_at_!! do you describe a tartan?
>
> "You see, there's this thick blue line, next to this thinner red line.
Inset
> into the blue line is this bit of yellow......" Yuck. Got any idea what
this
> looks like yet?
>
> Anyway, I thought that the best way to handle this might just be to give
> you guys some references to check out. A quick web search found the
following:
>
> http://www.scotweb.co.uk/tp/
>
> and
>
> http://www.tartans.com/
>
> both have pictures of many of the historical Scottish tartans. They also
> include many links to other sites; including the home pages of certain
> clans.
>
> Another good reference work is the following book:
>
> _Scottish_Clan_and_Family_Encyclopedia_
>
> by George Way of Plean and Romilly Squire
> (Harper Collins, 1994)
>
> It's a good, hardbound book with lots of historical information. Any
good
> bookstore ought to be able to get it for you.
>
> As for the Tartans I put on my infantry shoulder pads; well, I made them
up.
> I figured that it was enough of a stretch to imagine a world in the 41st
> millenium that still used the old Scottish clan system; I didn't need to
> assume that the family names would be the same! Besides, I wanted
tartans
> that would look good and could be made from the paints I had available.
>
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Received on Fri Aug 29 1997 - 20:02:30 UTC