Sweden calling.

[McFarkus]

from Chicago. If you go to Tartan Ferret and do keyword searches for Sweden and Swedish, you will find several tartans.

[Ancienne Alliance]

Welcome from France !

It’s good to have you here.




Best,

Robert & Lady Chrystel

[Caprimulgus]

orvice, Mcfarkus, Ancienne Alliance......thank you

[Jack Daw]

Hello and welcome from Houston, TX!

[Mike_Oettle]

Hi, Bengt, and welcome to X Marks from the bottom end of Africa.
There are several Swedish tartans, as others have mentioned. My research has come up with one called Sweden, another called Swedish, and one called Scandinavian (which is obviously intended for use in other Scandinavian lands as well).
Then there are district tartans for Malmö (named Malmo Sky Blue), Göteborg and Sarna (two tartans, one named Sarna Town).
There is one for the Nynäshamn Whisky Society, one for the Hammarby Football Club and one for Kungsholmen Snooker.
There are also family tartans for Svanholm, Belfrage and Sandelin (two versions in slightly different shades).

My family used to keep a herd of dairy cows, as well as a fair-sized flock of sheep and goats, but only the cows were milked. I do know of a number of farms that keep milch goat flocks, though. I never did learn how to milk a cow, though, and I take my hat off to you.

My father’s parents each had an ancestral link to Sweden: my grandfather’s grandmother came from a family established in Württemberg by a Swede who had fought in Gustav Adolf’s army during the Thirty Years War, while my grandmother’s family tree included a man who came from Stockholm to settle at the Cape during the 17th century.
Regards,
Mike

[dougle]

Welcome from Worcestershire England

[Dr Mac]

from Bryan/College Station!

[Caprimulgus]

Jack Daw, dougle and Dr. Mac :-)

Mike_Oettle, yes, I found most of those. Except the ones from Malmö and Nynäshamn. Thank you. I also heard later on, that my swedish family on my mothers side have some scottish ancestors. They spell their name Valley today, and I havn't yet figured out what their name was originaly. I see there's all kinds of Valley's represented in diferent tartans. I'll have to ask my Uncle about them, who's the main geneologist in the family today.

Edit: And oh, I'm knitting my kilt hose as we speak I've picked out a neutral no name tweed for my first kilt. And if I'm happy with wearing it, I have designed a more subtle Swedish tartan than those available. For those who want to blend into the swedish forrest more than stick out like a floresant warning vest.

[mbhandy]

From the Mts. of Utah




Just down the street is a goat farm. My dog Bonnie and I walk past the farm once a week and the guard Llamas like to chase each other in the field. When the big male sees us coming he gets all excited and runs up to the fence and wants me to rub his ears. So I feel they are just playing for he has not tried to hurt the dog they just run. The farm has Bernese guard dogs and they just watch unless I call them over and then they chase each other.

MrBill

[Caprimulgus]

mbhandy, that welcome pic will surely haunt me in my dreams Thanks mate.