X-Marks tartan meaning?

[Tartan Hiker]

Well, a hearty Thank You to all you lads that had a hand in this venture. Hopefully I'll make a good start on my X-marks kilt this weekend!

[Riverkilt]

Aye,

After Matt and Steve's great work I was in charge of jonesing while the fabric was woven and I waited my turn at Kathy Lare's.

Once my X Mark kilt was complete I semi-humbly appointed myself field tester for late winter mountain snowstorms, large pow-wow gatherings, pride festivals, and remote rez lands.



Extensive field testing reveals olde men strut just a little bit taller and swish their kilt swinger just a little bit more when kilted up in the X Marks the Scot tartan.

Its a fact. You can look it up.

Ron

[M. A. C. Newsome]

Well, when I sat down to design this, I just took a look at the web site and the general colors used on the forum were a dark blue, a light blue, grey and white. So those were my main colors. You are correct, a web site can be designed in any color, but this one uses those colors. Why? You'd have to ask Hank. But I suspect the general blue/white theme is to play on the colors of the St. Andrew's cross, Scotland's national flag.

The yellow is added because I thought a bit more of a bright color was needed for contrast, and so I took the yellow from the many emoticons used in the posts, as a nod towards this being an "internet" tartan.

And just to clarify, when Steve said he selected the colors, I assume what he meant is that Gordon Kirkbright had him "ok" the colors before production, as Steve was the one who put the cloth order in. Gordon also sent me a photo of a color preview so I could give them final approval, as the tartan designer.

Gordon was using a darker blue than I originally used in the design, and used a two-tone yellow for effect. He just wanted to make sure that was ok with me. I didn't think it represented too great a change from my design, so I had no problem with it.

[beloitpiper]

I thought it was for the colors of our zeppelin and our clan badge?

Boy, you sure are into zeppelins...

[Riverkilt]

Thanks Matt,

What a great color tweak Gordon made. For me, the dark blue is the core color.

Was struck by the fact that the tartan evolved from cooperation and contributions between Hank, Matt, Steve, and Gordon.

Two Americans and Two Canadians...okay one ex-pat....but even that makes it such a "friendship blend" of a tartan - International at its birth then spreading World wide.

Blues for the oceans that touch our shores, gray for the cloudy skys of Scotland, yellow for the gold it takes to buy kilts and accessories, white for the stunned look on people's faces when they see kilts worn outside a pipe band or whisky bottle label.

Ron

[macwilkin]

...please post all tartan-related threads in the heraldry & tartans section.

Thanks!

Todd