Livingston Tartan Being Woven?

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Livingston Tartan Being Woven?

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Take a look at this picture, is this WR1003 (Livingston Modern tartan)?

https://picasaweb.google.com/macnewsome ... 8113927570

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Wow, that sure looks like it. I'll send Matt an email and confirm.

Email sent. I will let everyone know when he replies.
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And here is the reply I received:
Greg,

Yes, that is indeed the Livingston tartan. It does not show in the picasa photo you linked to, but above the loom there was taped a paper which identified the tartan as the Livingston tartan, with the thread count given for the weaver. Good eye!

Matt

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Crieff, Perthshire
PH7 4HQ Scotland

And Matt is the curator at:
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Franklin NC, 28734

Good find Kyle!
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By the way, if you look through Matt Newsome's other pictures, there is some more of this tartan along with a whole bunch of other pictures of his recent trip to Scotland that may be of some interest. Matt is a Tartan scholar and knows a LOT about the history of Tartan. I have thought of trying to enlist his aid in tracking down the history of our Livingston tartan at some point.

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HI Kyle and Greg,

I thought that looked like a classic Livingstone tartan weave but I wasnt 100 percent certain. There are a few out there that look somewhat like our tartan. Thats great. We should see if we could get permission to include that photo in our clan web site gallery. I think the Baron will also be interested in seeing it. Nice find Kyle. I talked to someone a few years from the Scottish tartan Authority I think it was in North Carolina by phone or e-mail regarding my unrelenting quest to find the ultimate origins of the Livingston tartan prior to the 2oth century. For some reason I seem to remember talking to chap named Brian but I could be wrong.

regards,

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Good idea, Donald. I will talk with Matt and see if he would consider that. I've done a little business with him in the past and will, when I have the $$, have him make me a box pleated kilt in the Livingstone Ancient tartan.
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I have been peering at this photo, and think that it is Livingston Ancient rather than Livingston Modern. The colours in the tartan on the loom look a bit muted, and the wool on the shuttle does look slightly orangey, but it may be just the way the photo is printed. I don't think that Matt tells us whether this is the Modern or the Ancient.

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Good point. The colour wasn't clear to me, but the sett jumped right out! :)

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Matt gave his permission with certain restrictions so.... it is posted. No copies please.

http://www.clanlivingstone.info/copperm ... fullsize=1
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Thanks for showing us the enlarged picture, Greg. I am 99.9% certain that it is the Ancient Livingstone tartan. Until someone tells me otherwise, of course!

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