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marcie dean
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Kilts
« on: Tuesday 20 October 09 18:20 UTC (UK) » |
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I am distantly scottish. My mother was born in scotland and as a young girl right up into my teens, I would occasionally be given our buy a kilt. Either a red one or green, either scott or smith.
I am not a dressmaker so I do not know the difference between warp and weft. But I understand that one is the male line and the other is the female line; but my question is, which is which
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Scotland.
Lanark/Argyll/Renfrew/Ayr:Smith, Steele,Kirkwood,Hamilton,May,orO'may
Edinburgh/Aberdeen: Laidlaw,Brown,Dean/Barron/Charles/Hall/Slight/Johnston
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PrueM
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Re: Kilts
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 20 October 09 23:09 UTC (UK) » |
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I would be very interested in knowing where the information about male and female comes from - does it refer to the patterns of the warp and weft being inherited down these lines? I thought the warp was a single colour and only the weft changed during weaving?
Anyway, here is a website that you might find useful, and perhaps if you emailed them they might be able to give you some more information (I couldn't find anything online about male and female):
http://www.tartansauthority.com/Web/Site/ScottishTartansAuthority/introduction.asp
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marcie dean
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Posts: 249
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Re: Kilts
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 21 October 09 23:51 UTC (UK) » |
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My understanding is that the tartans gradually change throughout the centuries, due to the fact the head of the household "which scottish men protest is themselves"  chooses to marry alters the look slightly by incorporating the colours of the spouses line into it.
If I had a kilt made could you imagine. I have Smith, (McGowan?))Kirkwood,Brown,(McPherson)Laidlaw(Scott) Hamilton, Campbell, McDonald. God knows what that would look like. Does anyone fancy designing a kilt of their or mine mix of lineage.!!! just for fun. anyone who can draw./paint.
Take a photo and place it on here.
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Scotland.
Lanark/Argyll/Renfrew/Ayr:Smith, Steele,Kirkwood,Hamilton,May,orO'may
Edinburgh/Aberdeen: Laidlaw,Brown,Dean/Barron/Charles/Hall/Slight/Johnston
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