How To Invent And Register A New Tartan

The Design Procedure

Discussion – Drafts – Terminal Design – Registration – Copyright – Completion

scottish tartans Discussion – After having fabricated contact with Brian and given him the background to your proposed tartan – personal, family, fashion or corporate – he'll ask you a series of questions looking for relevant historical and gimmicky blueprint elements that are of unique significance to y'all. It will be those that will dictate the shape and content of your new tartan and provide you lot with not only a distinctive visual identify for the present, merely preserve that 'snapshot' of you, your family or business that volition final into the future and make 'tomorrow'south history'.

Draft Designs – Armed with those facts and your cursory, Brian will – usually within a matter of a few weeks – supply you with a minimum of three draft designs. For convenience and ease of dissemination around family or colleague, these are normally supplied as e-mail attachments merely tin be produced as hard copies if necessary.

Final Design – Once you've reviewed the designs and the pattern rationales, it will be determination-time! If you accept a favourite but would like some slight modifications then that's quite acceptable and Brian will work through your requirements until you lot're completely satisfied with the concluding design.

Registration – Adjacent footstep is to Register the pattern in the Regime controlled Scottish Register of Tartan which Tartan Administrator Ltd., volition automatically undertake at no extra accuse. It should be mentioned hither that at that place's no legal requirement to register your tartan but about folk will desire the satisfaction of knowing that their new tartan is documented in a publicly attainable place and – more than importantly – it will become part of the archival database that is searched prior to all registrations, to ensure that it's unique in proper noun and pattern.

Copyright – On payment of the final pattern fee Tartan Administrator Ltd., will transfer the copyright of the tartan to you.

Completion – The final stage volition be providing you with the official Document of Registration.

Included in the fee is ongoing impartial advice on the choice of material and weaver, the range and manufacturers of commemorative or commercial products and whatsoever other aid needed to maximise the potential of your new tartan.

To Weave or Not to Weave?

There was a fourth dimension when if tartan wasn't woven, it wasn't actually regarded as tartan! Strange as that may seem it was understandable that in the early days, the only way that tartan manifested itself was through the medium of cloth.

Engineering and the world has moved on since then and common sense dictates that tartan is tartan regardless of the medium used. It'due south well-nigh certainly seen at its very best when woven and hopefully, your plans will include some weaving for kilts, scarves, ties, skirts, interior furnishings, carpet and any of a huge range of products incorporating your tartan.

But . . . information technology needn't exist woven at all (don't let the Scottish weavers hear this!) and you can use information technology in a multitude of ways – printing onto cloth and an exciting diversity of other substrates; using a wink of your tartan on jotter, sales literature, wallpaper, even applying it to vehicles big and pocket-sized – the largest so far being the tail fin of of a British Airways Boeing 747 – the tartan designed for BA by our colleague Peter MacDonald by the style!