Service Tartans

[Riverkilt]

Really? Boy, I'm confused. Know we had to do a special run at the mill for the Army tartan. Thought there was talk of doing a leatherneck tartan run too, but it didn't take.

Know Alexis Malcolm has the tartans in wool and thought she controlled the producation of those fashion tartans.

SportKilts are in cotton/poly rather than viscose/poly...

Hoping an expert jumps in.

Ron

[billmcc]

Mr. MacDougall,

Ron is correct. USAK tartans are polyviscose which is much better than the poly-cotton used by Sport Kilt. All polys are not the same.

[RockyR]

Hi Mr. MacDougall,

That's a good question! I hope I can explain the answer...

The Army tartan is a privately owned tartan (jointly between Alexis Malcolm and Strathmore) that I had to pay to use. Well, I didn't HAVE to pay them if I could find a mill that didn't respect the rules of the Scottish Tartans Authority, but I wanted to keep everything on the "up and up". I only did this special run of Army tartan for members of XMARKS and once it's gone, it's gone.

Other military tartans are woven (with or without permission, I don't know) in Cotton Poly, not PV. Even if a company SAYS it's PV, many times it's not. The other military tartans are not available in PV (unless someone else had a special run done of another military tartan that I'm not aware of).

I hope this helps explain why we only have the Army tartan and NOT the Coast Guard, Leatherneck, Air Force or Navy (or thurso, or SeaBees or armed forces, or...).