Your tartans and Why?

[TimC]

Blackwatch - honor of my great Uncle on my mother's side
Gordon - honor of my great Uncle on my father's side
Royal Stewart - because...
Black Stewart - because...
Frasier - Clan on my mother's side
Ogilvie - Clan on my father's side
USCG - 4 and 1/2 years of service (HS2)
Scottish National - formal events

-Tim

[MysticMead]

UK Black: because black goes with everything

UK desert Camo: because of my service in the first gulf war

[bjproc]

mothers side

fraser of lovat, her maiden name is a sept of them.
Bell or MacMillan, my grandmother was a bell.

father side

My surname name is connected to the angus district tartan (they can't make up their mind if it's a district or a clan tartan).

MacNicol, greatgrandmother was a mcnicol, from portree, came onto the main land and dropped the Mac to just nicol.


i'll have to ask more about this



a also don't own a tartan kilt, but thinking about it

i scot with out a kilt, lol


going out with a girl who's a McDowell

[Bugbear]

My tartans:
I mostly stick to the solid color kilts, but right now I have two tartans.
Weathered Halfset Lamont because the colors aren't bright and are kind of pastel-ish and I can't wear bright colors.
Nightstalker SWK because it is black with gray and that's one of the color combinations I can wear.
I plan on getting Granite tartans in the future for the same reason.
I think I could wear a Hunting Wallace.
I could care less about any of the blood connections to clans because on one side I don't really know them and the other side I don't really care.
That being said, I could probably look ok in the tartan of a few of the family names, but can't find it in the price range I'm looking at at this time.
*** Coming back and reading this I can see that it needed some clarification. I was probably feeling down about not feeling the connection to a blood line and clan that others have. My mother does come from **** but the way I was raised, I don't really feel a connection to that name and clan. The following post responded to my post, and I am copying my response to this post because it has been a while. ***

don't worry, my father doesn't know who his father is, got brought up with his gran, so he's got his mothers maiden name, so my name is from my fathers mother's side of the family

There is a little bit of doubt in that way, but also on my father's side, the family line or history isn't "spoken" of and it's pretty much lost... I do know that I have many, many, many half relatives, most of which I have never met. I thought the half set Lamont tartan had an odd symbolic meaning in my life. I just don't feel that connection to my family line that others do...

It's funny, I lived with my grandmother for a while as a kid too. That was when my parents were working up to and going through their divorce. I don't think she had any Scottish roots though, what ever that means...
* I should add that I think it's great that a lot of the other folks have their family histories and so on worked out and that they are proud of their family connections. Also, I am not meaning to say that I do not care about my family, just that I do not feel the connection to the blood line or name and clan that others seem to feel.

[bjproc]

I could care less about any of the blood connections to clans because on one side I don't really know them and the other side I don't really care.

don't worry, my father doesn't know who his father is, got brought up with his gran, so he's got his mothers maiden name, so my name is from my fathers mother's side of the family

[ChromeScholar]

I have a Weathered MacKenzie (I like the way it looks)
a Black Watch (Universal)
a Black Stewart (Fashion)

I've got on the list

MacPherson Modern Red (blood)
Murray (blood)
Morrison red/green (blood)
Isle of Skye (looks)
Pride of Scotland (looks)
MacPherson Dress (blood)
MacPherson Ancient Red (blood)
Arizona (have to get R_R_S to weave the cloth for this one)

I'll probably find more later

[Mael Coluim]

One of the interesting things about this forum, old threads reappears and gives those who missed it a chance to add. So this my addition;

FAMILY TARTANS:
Paternal:
1. Malcolm – my surname; I have a tank in ancient and two belted plaids in modern
Taylor – Grandmother’s family (don't have)
4. Morris – SWK thrifty; Great Grandmothers family – sept of House of Gordon –

Maternal:
5. Robertson – Grandmother – Robertson red belted plaid
McRae – Great Grandmother (don't have)

Others:
6. McKenzie – SWK Standard; first tartan of the Liverpool Scottish Kings Regiment – my mother’s uncle James Robertson was in the Liverpool Kings
7. Stewart Black – USA Kilts; Robertson’s clan support of Bonnie Prince Charlie
8. Kaki Canvas- Buzz Kidder
9. Tiger Stripe Camo - AmeriKilt
on order;
10. St. Patrick - M. Newsome; to recognize my NW Irish DNA lineage and my interest in Celtic Christianity
12. St Columba; box pleat and belted plaid – M. Newsome; to commemorate my Clan’s ties to St. Columba and my participation in the 2003 re-enactment of the Voyage of St. Columba

On Friday at work I was kilted and one of my residents asked me how many kilts I had. I was a little unsure how to answer her. Now I know – 9 with three more on the way!

[Arizona Scot]

Right now I only have one tartan it is the MacLeod hunting. Ties to that clan on my mothers side.

Getting soon,(hope,hope,hope)
Gordon my clan waiting for this to be a tank
blackwatch because I like it
Welsh national great great great grandmother was a Powell
and possibly a weathered tartan of some sort because I like muted colors.

[Andrew Breecher]

Irish Co. Longford - blood through my mother.
MacRae Hunting Ancient - I like the tartan!
Cladish - I like the tartan!
Ramsay Blue - I like the tartan!
St. David - Welsh blood (Williams, from Llanelli, Carmarthenshire) through my father.

Andrew.

[sorcererdale]

Buccleuch I haven't found any heritage yet, and wanted something to relate to the lake I live next to and apparently he controlled lots of land and land by water. Heard he just died recently. Also liked the tartan.

American Heritage My daughter is in the Army, I was in the Navy, and other family members have been in the service and for what this tartan stands for.

Black Utilikilt "Me damn tailor in Scotland forgot to put in the colors!"

DALE.