Designing a Tartan

[be da veva]

Also, keep in mind that any tartan you design on scotweb's tartan designer belongs to scotweb. They will have the rights for it.

[artificer]

Also, keep in mind that any tartan you design on scotweb's tartan designer belongs to scotweb. They will have the rights for it.

This is no longer the case. About 2 years ago Nick "freed" up the design process. Their tartan designer is now free to use without restriction or "ownership" issues.

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[kiltmonk]

Thank you artificer, that's right.

Here's the passus: source: http://www.scotweb.co.uk/info/your-l...ponsibilities/


Production rights in your tartan designs

You may use our online Tartan Designer for any reasonable purpose, free-of-charge and without restriction. We impose no conditions on how you use any original tartan designs you create. This applies to all designs in our system, including retrospectively.

We will be delighted to supply your designs as woven fabric or ready-made products, and our pricing is highly competitive. But we do not require this. You may commission any weaver to produce your tartan for you as woven fabric. It is only by doing so that you establish copyright or other intellectual property interest in your design. See our notes on your rights. We recommend that for any design in which you have such an interest, you should not publish your designs openly in our Gallery until you have done so.

If you wish a tartan you have designed in our system and then had woven elsewhere to be exclusively produced by another weaver, you should notify us in writing, including a full reference to your design in our system including its name and design number. We will then identify it online as Restricted, and will not weave it ourselves. In the absence of such notification, we assume you are happy for us to weave any design in our system, whether it is known to have been woven or not. Note that whenever we weave a tartan you design, you earn a royalty on the weaving charge, which will be credited to your Scotweb member’s account in the form of Scotweb Points.

We also request that if you go on to formally record with the Scottish Register of Tartans a design created in our online Tartan Designer, please include in the recording notes that it was designed with the help of the “Scotweb Online Tartan Designer“.

Kind regards

Marcus

[be da veva]

Wow, I'm really out of it..... Thank you for the update.

[Lorna]

I have not designed a tartan so I can't help you there but I have had a length of tartan woven and shipped to Canada. It was then sent to Burnett and Struth in Barrie, Ontario to be made into a dancer's kilt. I was pleased with the finished kilt. Many of the pipe bands in the area use Burnett and Struth as their supplier of kilts.

[unixken]

Part of the problem you will find with any "non stock" tartan, especially any that you design yourself, will be finding mills willing to produce short runs of just a few yards. D.C. Dalgliesh specializes in short runs, and through Scotweb, are likely to give you very competitive pricing. Most other mills would normally require much higher minimum yardage, to produce your custom tartan. (Though Scotweb has arranged for a few other U.K.-based mills to do some of their short-run commissions.)

In other words, Dalgliesh may charge you a higher cost per yard, due to the setup charges being amortized over just a few yards.... versus other mills who might be able to provide a cheaper price per yard, but who would require you to buy so many yards that your net total cost is higher. In other words, which is more affordable to you... 8 yards at $100 per yard? Or 30 yards at $85 per yard?

I'm currently waiting on an 8yd hand-sewn kilt from D.C. Dalgliesh, made from a tartan that I designed with the Scotweb online tartan design tool, in 15oz wool. I found the price to be reasonable for what I'm getting. Although not "cheap", I have other kilts from them and can vouche for the superb quality... worth every dollar.