Quote Originally Posted by paulhenry View Post
Just a minor little point, the SRT doesn't recognise tartans in any "proper and official" way , I mean their only criteria is, is the design unique, and not actually likely to offend. They are at pains not to, in any sense,favour any tartan by giving it "recognition". And the same goes for the STA, both bodies are happy to register/record tartans but without giving a preference to them, so the fact that Irish, or American, or any other tartans have been recorded, only means that they are on a master list of tartans which can be easily accessed.
Thanks for the clarification. It is certainly true that to be registered and recorded does not de facto make any tartan official. My point was that if the Scottish government was as protective of tartan as they are Scotch whisky, an Irish tartan would never even be registered as a tartan in the first place.