About your tartan

Designer
Date
Rationale (background information)

Designer
The designer of a tartan is the person who created the sett or pattern. This may be an individual or a company name. If more than one person was responsible for the tartan, please include all the appropriate surnames in this field and provide full names in the Rationale (background information) field.

Please ensure all listed designers have given their permission.

If the designer is unknown, please enter ‘Unknown’ in the designer field.

Date
Please use the drop down boxes to enter the date when the tartan was created.

If the tartan is an historical design, please provide an approximate date, or the date of any surviving evidence of when the tartan was first worn, used or recorded (as far as you are aware).

Rationale (background information)
The information you provide in this field will be used to support the proposed name and category of your tartan. It is limited to a maximum of 1,000 characters and may be edited. This information will be published on the Register if your application is successful though the Scottish Register of Tartans reserve the right to amend the wording of rationale in order to ensure that it complies with the necessary criteria.
The rationale must not contain abbreviations or any information that is not factually correct. The wording included in your rationale should not include any political statements or be used as a means to promote any political campaigns or ideologies. Statements must be solely associated with the person, persons or organisation applying to have their tartan registered. Only titles recognised by the Court of the Lord Lyon in Scotland may be used in the rationale.

The rationale should ideally include details of:

• Why this tartan was created, or registered if not a new design?
• What prompted you to choose the tartan name?
• For tartans designed for a specific district or location, authority is required from the local governing body or their representative. Details of the body or person providing the authority shall be included.
• Tartans commemorating a specific event should include some background information that explains how the tartan is linked to that event. Where the event is part of an official commemoration then authority to register the design on behalf of the organisation coordinating the event should accompany the application.
• The rationale can also include factual information that supports why the colours were selected but this is not essential.

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