This post was getting off topic on the Maine tartan thread, so I started another one:


[QUOTE=M. A. C. Newsome;341506]

The fact is, though, that most American state tartans are not going to be picked up and added to the regular line of any Scottish tartan mill (the exception being the Georgia tartan, which is regularly produced by Strathmore). [QUOTE]


Matt,

Why is that? Are we Georgians special and unique? Or are we that common and trashy? Or neither? Or both?

Or is it just that the tartan itself is thought to have a marketable appeal?