My Grandmother's Family Tartan - Chisholm, imporoper to wear?

**Jock Scot** · 26th June 18, 12:05 AM

As you have asked Colin, most traditional kilt wearing Scots wear one family/Clan tartan and usually the tartan of their father.

To wear more than one Clan tartan would almost instantly raise the thought of “ more money than sense” in most of their minds and the second thought would be “ how brash/vulgar”. Showing off ones wealth(that is how it’s percieved) is not regarded as a merit here. The minority with wealth in the Highlands are very well aware of this and do make efforts “not to rub people’s nose in it”.

Well, you did ask.

**RodF** · 26th June 18, 06:19 PM

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So here is an example of the cockades that I mentioned earlier. These are ones that but for the fleur-de-lis are not finished, but gives you an idea of what could be done. The buttons came from Jas. Townsend and work really well for the accent. I will have to try making one from wool tartan, I suspect I need to see if there are ribbons of identified clan tartans.

Ok, now off to cut the front yard.

**Father Bill** · 26th June 18, 06:50 PM

Originally Posted by RodF

So here is an example of the cockades that I mentioned earlier. These are ones that but for the fleur-de-lis are not finished, but gives you an idea of what could be done. The buttons came from Jas. Townsend and work really well for the accent. I will have to try making one from wool tartan, I suspect I need to see if there are ribbons of identified clan tartans.

Ok, now off to cut the front yard.

WOW! Just plain, WOW!

**RodF** · 26th June 18, 09:39 PM

Originally Posted by Father Bill

WOW! Just plain, WOW!

Thanks Father Bill! Now I am trying to figure out tartan cockades! Hmhm...yardage in two yard spools. Ok, Etsy...now there are options...hmhmhm....

Here is the link to the instructions I used to do these.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-ribbon-cockade/

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/j...ns_2017web.pdf

For the buttons...