One of my all time favourite tartans.


U.S. Marine Corps

STA ref: 975
STWR ref: 975
Designer: Hall/MacLeod
Tartan date: 01/01/1986
Registration date: This tartan was recorded prior to the launch of The Scottish Register of Tartans.
Category: Military
Restrictions: None
Registration notes: Designed by Bob Hall of Tallahassee, USA and Ruraidh MacLeod of Auchtermuchty and a member of the Scottish Tartans Society. For the US Marine Corps which was founded in 1775 by the Scot John Paul Jones. Does not have official U.S.Marine Corps sanction but is sometimes sold as 'U.S. Marine Corps'. Said to be exclusively woven for the Marine Corps Historical Foundation. One of a series of US Military tartans woven by the Strathmore Woollen Company. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Dalgety Collection. Also now woven by Lochcarron (Sept. 2004).

If it were me me, I would pleat to the sett - just to show off the tartan.

Regards

Chas