The Roseline DaVinci Tartan

[turpin]

Very interesting website showcasing this new tartan

I ran across it and thought youall might find it interesting

[cessna152towser]

Yet another tempting tartan, though their website design doesn't inspire confidence. Is it just me or does everyone else have to keep scrolling left and right, line by line, to read the text. I've not yet visited Roslin Chapel, despite that its only about 40 miles from here. One of my more interesting hikes was the old Penicuik branch railway trackbed on which there is a disused railway station near the chapel, with its name Rosslyn Castle picked out in stones.

[auld argonian]

Most excellent! My kilt pin is from Ram's Horn and they've been very good as a source of Christmas gifts...actually, I was thinking about asking if they still had any of their Green Man pendants. I didn't know about the tartan connection.

Yet another tartan to lust after...

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[Arlen]

It's certainly interesting, and it's a nice looking tartan.
I'm not sure I'd buy it, though.


You certainly do find some really interesting things.

[Tattoo Bradley]

That IS a fine looking tartan.

[Ozman1944]

Tartan is very pretty, pity it's associated with such "National Enquirer" nonsense as the Duh! Vinci Code.....

[gilmore]

Joseph Maxwell-Stuart, a descendant of Bonnie Prince Charlie?

Jesus and Mary's 'Celto-Hebraic' lineage ?

Jesus' grandmother being buried near Fortingal?

Sir William St. Clair (third and last Prince of Orkney)?

the Sinclair bloodline can be traced back to Jesus and Mary Magdalene?

Scotland's part in the unfolding story of the Holy Grail?

It's sad to see Scots stooping to this level just to sell tartan. But worse, this story comes from an imperialistic, anti-Semitic 19th century theory that Britons were the true biological descendants of the Jews, that contemporary Jews were interlopers, and that as God's chosen people the British had a divine right to exand their empire and bring Christianity to the heathen.

[Ayin McFye]

Joseph Maxwell-Stuart, a descendant of Bonnie Prince Charlie?

Jesus and Mary's 'Celto-Hebraic' lineage ?

Jesus' grandmother being buried near Fortingal?

Sir William St. Clair (third and last Prince of Orkney)?

the Sinclair bloodline can be traced back to Jesus and Mary Magdalene?

Scotland's part in the unfolding story of the Holy Grail?

It's sad to see Scots stooping to this level just to sell tartan. But worse, this story comes from an imperialistic, anti-Semitic 19th century theory that Britons were the true biological descendants of the Jews, that contemporary Jews were interlopers, and that as God's chosen people the British had a divine right to exand their empire and bring Christianity to the heathen.

Historically kilt makers just randomly made tartans before any family has specified names associating them with specific tartan. The merchants would have a plaid made and they would just pick a name and say for example "this is the MacDougal Tartan" knowing that by saying so the MacDougal family for instance would think to themselves "Well I better buy it then, and that way everyone in our clan can have matching tartans." but the tartan maker still owned the rights to make it for anyone even though they marketed it to one specific family.

This Da Vinci tartan is just another marketing tactic, but I'm not offended by them creating it after something like this. There is a Shrek tartan for instance, just because people will buy it because it has to do with Shrek. this type of marketing has been going on for many generations and will continue to do so. I wouldn't think that Scotland has stooped to a low level by creating this tartan for some marketing ploy, honestly it's tradition.

Just my two cents.

[M. A. C. Newsome]

We got some spam at the museum when this tartan first was launched trying to get us to throw out support behind it. I had to decline, not because it's not an attractive tartan, but because of all the historical nonsense being used in the materials to promote it. For instance: "Furthermore, red is the color of Mary Magdalene's hair in da Vinci's famous Last Supper painting."

The only thing DaVinci has to do with Roslyn Chapel is a pulp fiction novel...
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[Kid Cossack]

I'm not a moderator, I don't play one on TV, and I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

With that said, a most humble request: if we're going to talk about the DaVinci Code, could we limit ourselves to discussing Dan Brown's literary techniques? I actually saw a real, punches-type fight break out as a result of discussing Brown's novel. (Hint hint: it's a NOVEL, like Battlefield Earth.)

Nice looking tartan, but it'd be way down there on the list for me.