Confusion about Lord Lyon and the Registry of Tartans

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I think you will find that all tartans in Scotland are in the government's Tartans Registry, no matter which of several collections they were registered in previously, and that to register a tartan today what one must do is make application to the Registry and show that there is sufficient difference between the one you wish to register and all others registered. The idea is that eventually all tartans in the world wishing to call themselves "Scottish" will be registered in Scotland.

My understanding is that Lord Lyon, on the other hand and representing HG, registers tartans peculiar to armigers and at the specific request of those armigers. So Angus MacAngus of Angusdale may request that certain variations on the MacAngus of Angusdale tartan be registered as acceptable to him and, by exclusion, others not. As per Argyll.

Rex (too)