Do Tartans Have Secret Meanings???
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
- What do the lines in a tartan mean?
Do the colors of a tartan have special meaning?
Does the thread count of a tartan have any meaning?
Is there a tartan code?
Why do clans have different tartans?
How do you know which tartan to wear?
Tartan (sometimes called plaid by mistake) is a patterned cloth consisting of crisscrossed threads of different colors. The number of threads is what differentiates the pattern.
Over time, many people have come to believe that the shades of colors in tartan have a specific meaning - or a code. For example that “red means courage,” or “white means purity.”
Is this purely myth? Yes and no. While there is no such hidden code, modern tartans are often created with the intention of ascribing meaning to some aspect of the design, especially colors.
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Really enjoying your CZcams channel guys. Keep up the great work. From New Zealand.
Do you have a video that breaks down the different parts of the kilt for better comprehension and understanding the language... especially for those looking to create a design?
I see Davidson modern and Davidson ancient in the bookshelf behind you. But yet I've never heard the channel speak of them.
Why I love the State of Michigan tartan is that while its bust with colors, it's all symbolic. Blue for the Great lakes, green for forests, tan for coasts/beaches, white for snow, red for cherries.
I just learned my family's name dates back to 1363 in southern Scotland. That's pretty cool to me
As a youngster I was a highland dancer and always wondered where the colours came from and the meaning behind them. Now I know the answer.....thank you.
Originally , the tartans were dyed using materials from the locality, as such they would blend into the background. and were therefore a form of camouflage
So I have been tracking my genealogy and stuff and I’m a bit lost on the clan tartan. I have the last name of my ancestor that came over from Scotland and the last name and county where my ancestor came from from Ireland, is there a good way to confirm if I’ve got it correct?
Are there any armored kilts?
I have been told that one of my great Aunts had the original tartan or pattern for the Clan Cunningham that traced back to about 1870. The pattern itself tells who is in the lineage down to that point. Just contributing what I know.
I had read somewhere that the Jacobite tartan did have meaning ascribed to its colors. The white being for the white rose of the Stuart monarchy and the red for revolution. Is that not correct?
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police tartan has lots of symbolism in its colours. Plus it’s a very good looking tartan.
On the looks good, I like the Earth Rise tartan design. I think it looks very nice
Wondering if you've heard of Schoolbraids surname and is there a tartan for this surname?
You know, I have to be honest. I’ve debated whether or not I even want to add a meaning to the colors in the personal family tartans I’ve created. But that being said, I have two separate designs each with various color variations. But in those two separate designs I do have a set of lines that have a very specific meaning. In one it’s an interior set and the other it’s the exterior set. I did this differentiate the two. And they simply represent generations. Past present and future generations.
If you are unsure of your clan affiliation theres a great little color picture book called The Scottish Tartans. Histories of the clans, chiefs arms and clansman badges. The Author is Johnston and Bacon. 1975. 1st print 1948. I am Farquharson. Originally French servants of Mary Queen of Scots in the 1560s.
i think many of canadian tartan does have color meaning
example maple leaf the collor represent the 4 seasons of the maple leaf here waht it says in the tartan register
The colours of the maple leaf through the changing seasons became the basis for this asymmetric tartan designed by David Weiser in 1964.
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oups i noticed later you talke dabout the maple leaf(canadia national tartan)
i wrote the first part after you mention nova scotia
do family names have there own tartan designs like mckenna or russell families
Russell does! www.usakilts.com/advancedsearch/result/?q=russell
Watson does also, one of mine.
I JUST REMEMBERED ONE MORE GINGHAM AS A TARTAN WHICH IS THE RED AND WHITE MacMEDIC.
What macarthur tartans meaning
I am a Shaw.
The modern Shaw tartan is Black Watch tartan with a red line representing the blood of Fearchar Shaw who was executed for mutiny in the Black Watch
How can I track down a specific Clan tartan? In my case, Clan MacClellan?
Here you go! (The tartan is spelled similarly - MacLellan)
www.usakilts.com/advancedsearch/result/?q=maclellan
@@USAKiltsOfficial Thank you for your kind reply. I wasn't sure of my spelling on the name. Think you have it right.
@@barbaratomlinson6776 You can also check out www.clanmaclellan.net/ for more information about the clan.
Have any tartans or a tartan ever had its field decreased or enlarged and still be regarded as the same tartan?
Yes... the size of the sett doesn't dictate the design being considered 'different'. The overall pattern must be different. Example: A Royal Stewart tartan with a 2" repeat and a Royal Stewart tartan with a 45" repeat are both Royal Stewart... one is just much bigger than the other.
Another way to look at it - as a work of art. If you took the Mona Lisa and shrunk it down to a 5" x 5" canvas OR blew it up to a 200" x 200" canvas, it would still be recognizable as the Mona Lisa. Same holds true for tartan.
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I ONLY KNOW OF THREE GINGHAMS AS TARTANS, TWO OF WHICH ARE THE ROB ROY AND THE MONCREIFFE.
DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TARTANS ARE RECORDED IN THE REGISTRY THAT ARE GINGHAMS ONLY?
Willam of Occam never said anything like "the simplest explanation is the right one." What he said was "we ought not to multiply [unfalsifiable] variables unnecessarily." He was talking about how the more unfalsifiable variables there are in an answer, the harder it is to yield a viable statistic with a calculable margin of error.
That was the phrase which was turned into Occam's Razor, which almost everyone completely misunderstands and horribly abuses. It was only a recommendation about how to do experimentation - or how to ask questions in a way that can be answered by experiments. It was not a rule, and it had nothing to do with the actual conclusions being right or wrong, but rather to do with them delivering an answer that could be discussed in scientific terms (i.e. as quanta, qualia, and probability).
Sounds as plausible and as inviting to believe as the phrase people, myself included, tend to use... from what sources did you get the information you present here?
1:25 because they’re stylish, of course. I’m a fairly small percentage Scottish and I still want a kilt. The kilt cut for bottoms existed for millennia throughout Europe. Modern “fashion” is so bland and unappealing. We need a new cultural revolution to make society suck less. Kilts are part of my vision for a better future.
There's a book I came across at the library, that claims there's an OGHAM code in tartans. Seems pretty far-fetched.
Yes, that IS very far fetched. Might ONE designer have done something on a tartan or two? Sure. But as a generalization? No.
I've never wove a tartan, but I've woven plaids with messages written in Morse Code, using Fibonacci numbers...
So curious about that mill now 😡
HAHAHA...same here and I went back to where Rocky mentions it to lip read and realized his mouth was pixled out for that very reason . Blast !
It seems to be a modern thing to want to assign meaning to everything, even retroactively. In the American flag the number of stars and strips mwan something, even that is concrete numbers, the colors were just bold colors thst were common in flags of the time. Today however, people will come up with all kinds of meanings for the colors to feel it has even more symbolism. I think people do that with many things, including tartans, giving more meaning than their ancestor had these five colors available when he designed the tartan.
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I was raised to believe that if there was a black thread in your tartan you were anti monarchy. Ie not a royalist. This predates 1953. And refers to when the royalists were fighting in 1640. This was a code passed down amongst family members against the crown. I became aware of it in the 1960s.
Do you have a source / citation for that? We've never heard that before.
@@USAKiltsOfficial sorry no citation. It is what I grew up with, handed down through my Scottish family. Oral tradition.
Green & red is Catholic, blue tartans are Protestant..
I love the meaning of the Masonic Tartan.