Tartan Ferret at STA
Last night I was browsing the site map at the Scottish Tartans Authority and noticed that there were two links for "Search the STA Tartan Index." I clicked the second one and pulled up the "Tartan Ferret," that search tool that has been advertised as "coming soon" on the home page for so long.
This search utility has more options, for instance, you can specify particular sequence of colors to see which tartans contain a match, but it takes a couple of extra clicks to see the renderings. The bonus, however, is that once you get there, you can see the notes about the tartan, if they exist. Many are quite extensive, like "Antarctic," and explain what all the colors are supposed to symbolize. I hope this isn't a mistake, as in the original search the notes are restricted to members only.
For some reason, I am spotting tartans with this method I hadn't seen before, like the "Golfer's" and "Chinese-Scottish."
Regards,
Rex in Cincinnati
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