Clan Tartan

Check out our friend Wikipedia for the subtleties of clan-tartan relationships: The red plaid worn by grunge-rockers and punks is the Royal Stewart tartan, the non-exclusive tartan of the British royal family. ❋ Unknown (2008)

She began to dread the end of her little journey of seven miles; the only drawback to which was, that her silk was not a true clan-tartan, and a little uncertainty as to Miss Rose's punctuality, At length they came to a village; straggling cottages lined the road, an old church stood on a kind of green, with the public-house close by it; there was a great tree, with a bench all round the trunk, midway between the church gates and the little inn. ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

Cowgate porter (or the Scots College at Douay), even behind the counter of one of the great clan-tartan warehouses which used to illuminate the principal thoroughfare of Edinburgh. " ❋ Vernon Lee (1895)