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    I always thought Black Stewart was a generic tartan, am I right? Anyway, the nightstalker, the Scottish national, the Irish National, Ireland's national, states tartans, district tartans, the list goes on and on...

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    You might be interested in this one


    It is the American bicentennial tartan



    This just a thumbnail, but you can click on the Kiltstore logo at the top on the main XMARKS page and see about 2 to 4 thousand different tatrans, including this one
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    Black Stewart (Stewart Mourning) is an open tartan as far as I know, as are most of the Stewart tartans. Also, as far as I know, there is no specific British tartan. There is the Govt tartan, which some say is an old Campbell tartan. There are several connected to the Royals as well. What it really comes down to is you're free to wear almost any tartan you want, just learn a bit of the history of it. Offsetting that, many tartans are very recent creations and there really isn't any history to them. The Irish County tartans and corporate tartans are examples of that.
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    Question Sassenach

    Hey man wear what you like! Especially if you,re not a traditionalist yourself. Why truth be told there is a little sassenach blood in me ! (English)We like to keep that side of the family quiet. Oh did I type that out loud?

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    If you are a dash Welsh, start there and get a Welsh tartan. Otherwise, go for a district, the USA St. Andrew's is very nice if you live here.

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    Black Watch is always available as well. And with the Welcsh, one of the Welsh tartans would be fine. I believe that there is a one kilt maker that only makes Welsh cilts.
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    Kiltstore has a list of "universal" tartans. Go to their site and click on tartan finder. Take a look at the FAQs also.
    http://www.kiltstore.net/discount?discount=xmark04ljqr2

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    The Holyrood tartan (see my recent thread about my new kilt) was designed in 1977 to celebrate the Queens 50th Jubilee. It's a lovely tartan, and there's absolutely no reason whatsoever that you shouldn't wear it.

    Are you a Marine or US Navy? Both of those services have their own tartans. There's a Confederate tartan.

    California has a state tartan. So do Texas, Minnesota and a bunch of other states.

    Bob C. on this board has a kilt made out of a tartan specifically for the "Border Families"....not a particular family, but the Borders, so if your English ancestors were up near the borders, then why not?

    Black Watch
    Scottish National
    National Millennium
    Flower of Scotland
    Caledonia
    Holyrood
    Warrior

    These are all Scottish tartans that have no clan affiliations.

    You can wear all of the "Stewart" tartans...Royal (red), Black (mourning), Hunting (green), Gray Stewart, or dress Stewart (white). Dress Gordon is fair game. Look, there's a Philipino guy in my office who regularly wears a flannel shirt made out of Dress Gordon. I had a pair of pajamas when I was growing up in Royal Stewart. As Matt Newsome has pointed out, you can buy shortbread in tins painted with Royal Stewart. So don't stress over wearing the Stewart tartans. Burberrys is marketing EN MASSE a line of clothing, including scarves, umbrellas, checkbook covers and handbags all in a variant of the Thompson tartan, primarily in "camel".

    Or, if you really want to get a non-clan affiiated tartan, and get a really special kilt made, get in on the next XMarks tartan order and send the material to the kiltmaker of your choice. The XMarks tartan is the pattern you see as the background on this web page. Rocky at USA kilts would make you a killer 6-yard wool kilt out of that material.
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    Welsh National ITI nr.1523
    Welsh National (fashion) ITI nr.2167
    Flanders (=Belgian) ITI nr.2531 (lovely tartan...and very rare!)

    And behold my Caladonia kilt! :mrgreen:



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