What tartan is this please?

**doctorg** · 29th August 20, 02:23 AM

The best I could guess (looking up on various websites) is County Cavan (Ireland). Help appreciated. Thanks.
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**figheadair** · 29th August 20, 05:05 AM

Yes HoE's County Cavan.

**doctorg** · 29th August 20, 04:18 PM

It's a lovely pattern and colours. I have an ancestor from Cavan, so that's a bonus. Except he was a criminal.

**OC Richard** · 30th August 20, 06:37 AM

It is a beautiful tartan.

I have read, though Peter might have more accurate information, that all the tartans in House Of Edgar's Irish County Tartans range were designed by Polly Wittering, and first produced in 1996.

What I love about HOE's Irish County range is that they were designed simply to look good, which was the original motivation of the old tartan designers.

Tartans the design of which is governed by non-tartan non-aesthetic factors are rarely as attractive as tartans which are not. (For example designing a tartan based on colours from a flag, or a crest, or any other basis other than which colours make a good-looking tartan.)

I don't think there's a bad-looking tartan in the entire HOE Irish county range, and some are of surpassing beauty. Well done Polly!

My only regrets are that HOE only produces this range in 13oz, and that most/all of the sett-sizes are a bit small for my liking.

Here's a lovely photo of Cavan.

**figheadair** · 30th August 20, 08:13 AM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

It is a beautiful tartan.

I have read, though Peter might have more accurate information, that all the tartans in House Of Edgar's Irish County Tartans range were designed by Polly Wittering, and first produced in 1996.

Richard, yes that's correct, so far as I know the entire Irish County range was designed by Polly around the same time.

**OC Richard** · 30th August 20, 12:43 PM

Originally Posted by figheadair

Richard, yes that's correct, so far as I know the entire Irish County range was designed by Polly around the same time.

Thanks for the confirmation.

Thing is, I read that in a book that's chock-full of errors, World Tartans by Iain Zaczek.

Which didn't give me much confidence.

BTW I noticed that one of the HOE Irish County tartans has a curious similarity to Isle Of Skye.

Linguists and police detectives tend to not believe in coincidences, and I must say that artists are much the same.