Quote Originally Posted by gilmore View Post
Hmmm....a tartan invented by a mill owner to celebrate a fictional character that was, most likely, a far cry from anything gypsies were actually like in the period portrayed. I wonder if an actual gypsy has ever even seen it.

But then maybe I am missing the point, which seems to be mill owners and kilt merchants making money off of people so deparate to claim some kind of heritage that they will swallow most anything.
Methinks you are reading far too much into this, gilmore. Dreadbelly wanted a tartan with a gypsy connection, and this one had it, albiet a fictional one. And besides, Sir Walter was just as much as anyone "to blame" for many tartan myths, so why not chuckle at the irony of his connection to this supposed "gypsy" tartan instead of getting upset?

T.