After much thought, we've revised the T&C for our online Tartan Designer system, to remove all restrictions on what users can do with their designs. This applies retrospectively as well as to new designs.

In short, this means that you may use the system to design tartans, and use the results however you like... in particular, this means you can ask any weaver to produce your woven fabric for you. And you will retain all intellectual property thereafter, just as if you'd done so yourself on paper.

Under our new Terms, you may now even ask us to list your newly created design as Restricted, to be exclusively produced by a weaver of your choice. Simply notify us in writing and we will list it as such online, and will not weave it ourselves.

See: http://www.scotweb.co.uk/info/licens...eb-to-produce/ for the main T&C page regarding this. And of course please visit http://www.scotweb.co.uk/tartandesign/ if you want to play with the system yourself.

Incidentally, I should apologise that the long-promised upgrade to the Tartan Designer interface and facilities has not yet happened. We know it's still a bit clunky in places. But our tech team is currently fully committed to a major piece of back-end programming that has to be finished shortly. So this is still high on my list just as soon as we can!