Harris Tweed on the other hand, is much more a "thing" and deserves its restricted mark for heritage reasons.
Cornish sailors knitting patterns next!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visit_of_King_George_IV_to_Sco...
Which is ironic given the almost ethnic cleaning levels of treatment given to Highlanders and their culture following the '45 and the later Clearances:
Fairlie and Kilmarnock in Ayrshire. After that the family was only listed in Broxburn and Uphall mining towns outside of Edinburgh.
edit: Got a name wrong. Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, but also were around Kirkliston near Edinburgh along with the other two towns later on.
During the siege of Caerlaverock Castle, 60 Scottsmen held off 3000 English men along with about 87 English knights. It is also one of the most exquisite castles in that it is triangular. If you ever are in Dumfries, you must see it: http://www.techandfacts.com/caerlaverock-castle-scotland/
Edit: This poem from one of the king's heralds detailing the battle is incredible: https://fourteenthcenturyfiend.com/2017/02/03/the-siege-of-c...
Pampered, we are.
In order for the customer to make a payment by credit/debit card we need:
1) the card number
2) the card expiry date;
3) the issue number if Maestro;
4) the last 3 digits of the card security number (on the reverse of the credit card);
5) the cardholder's name and initials as displayed on the card; and
6) the cardholder's address. Please note that all of these details are essential. Please also provide your reference (NRS/TR/Tartan Name).
Please telephone +44 (0)131 535 1395 to make payment by credit card. https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/fees
Normally I would expect an https-protected webform of a trusted payment processor.
There are strict rules about not writing down cardholder details etc as well. You're correct, these are riskier transactions and the cost per transaction can be higher for the merchant to be able to accept payments this way.
Edit: I should have guessed by the domain.
https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails?ref=12260
which, sadly, seems to have been registered on behalf of a white supremacist cult.
Right wing kheads, stop using our legacy and legends as a vehicle for your ked up beliefs! Vikings and norse people were not pure, they assimilated whatever culture they came into contact with, including blood, as they spread across europe. Seriously, go make up your own weird ass religion to cling your racist beliefs to. It worked for scientology!
I hate the fact that I have to think twice about getting a line from a viking script tattooed on my arm because it might be thought of as right wing.
https://wiki.debian.org/Tartan
https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartandetails?ref=5936
"This is the tartan of The Debian Project: an association of individuals who work together to create a free operating system that is called Debian GNU/Linux, or simply Debian for short. In 2007 Debian held its eighth annual gathering of developers from all over the world in Edinburgh, and the tartan was designed to celebrate that fact. The colours are references to various logos: Reds for the Debian swirl, Blue for Captain Blue-Eyes (the old Debian logo), and Yellow, Black & White for Tux, the Linux logo. If the image is rotated 180 degrees, the White can be seen to be arranged so as to spell out DEBIAN in Morse code (with a correct 1:3 ratio for dots to dashes, and for the pauses in and between letters)."
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/plaid-articles-of-int...
Some fun and semi-related tartan sites:
The list of US State Tartans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_tartans
A Tartan warp sequence generator: http://www.weddslist.com/cgi-bin/tartans/pg.pl?source=sts#re...
The above site is pretty neat! They have a GIANT list of recognized tartans, with the warp sequences. In addition, you can input your own warp sequence. Though I can't find evidence of the warp sequence being used as a messaging platform, it's not hard to envision. Take some message, convert it to hexadecimal (or some other method), put it in the weft, and viola! A 'secret' message:
http://www.weddslist.com/cgi-bin/tartans/tartan.pl?col(g)=00...
"Designed by Bill Alexander 1987, promoted by Eyedea Creative Consultancy Ltd for the Compaq Computer Co, an American compay which set up business in Scotland."
