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Setting aside the Scottish Clan tartans, in the world of Scottish tartans there are "district" tartans (named after a geographical region) and "fashion" tartans, which are tartans created just to look attractive, and don't have a clear connexion to a Clan, region, school, corporation, etc.
Very popular is Isle Of Skye. Also popular are tartans like Auld Lang Syne, Auld Scotland, Highland Granite, Hebridean Heather, and so forth.
At a recent Highland Games I saw a House Of Edgar pattern-book chock full of dozens of beautiful tartans I'd not seen before, here they are http://www.houseofedgar.com/acatalog/Hebridean.html
These tartans have no other purpose than to look good, and that they do.
Going outwith Scotland there are numerous National tartans (Ireland, USA, etc) and Irish County tartans and US State tartans.
Traditional wool kilts aren't necessarily tartan. There are "saffron" kilts and tweed kilts and so forth.
Last edited by OC Richard; 26th September 19 at 07:46 PM.
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