Matching tartan flashes?

[Tenmiles]

For somebody interested in the origins and traditions of things, like me, it's not only a matter of tartan flashes looking untraditional, it's the idea of making flashes out of woven yardage, then cutting them to size and hemming and stitching them.

For flashes have always been made, even up to today, of special cloth tape woven for the purpose to the correct width.

Traditionally this cloth tape is woven with a zigzag/herringbone pattern, of worsted wool. The tape is usually plain but is sometimes striped.

Here are modern flashes made of the traditional stuff; note that it is not hemmed but specially woven for this purpose to the correct width



Originally you would wrap a length of that tape round your leg and tie a knot

And I quite like the look and texture of these tapes, in keeping with the purposeful look of the original method. I shall keep my eye out for flashes of this manner; there's something much more appealing about these.