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Mah Jongg Tile Set Description
Tile Set Name: TARTAN.TIL
Subject: Scottish Clan Tartans
Created by: Barbara Beckham, Ph.D.
3377 Mavis
Corpus Christi, TX 78411
Tartan refers to a plaid fabric, particularly one with a pattern
distinctive to a particular clan of the Scottish Highlands.
Although the design of a tartan cloth appears complicated, it is in
fact very simple. It consists of a sequence of colored stripes of
various widths, starting at the edge of the cloth and running its
full length. Next to this the same sequence is repeated but in
reverse order, as though the sequence had been hinged over along
its edge. And so the sequence continues repeating and reversing.
Exactly the same sequence of stripes is repeated across the width
of the cloth. The two repeating and reversing series of stripes,
woven together, make up the tartan.
The simple sequence of colored stripes and their proportions (sett)
is the basic element in a tartan. Owing the the unique abstract
basis of the sett, the size of the colored stripes does not matter
at all. A small version of a "sett" for a silk necktie and a large
version for a blanket both show the same tartan. Any system of
measurement can be applied to these "setts" and still give the same
tartan, for example, "four" in a sett can be "four" feet or "four"
threads, and provided the same units of measurement are used
throughout, the result will still be the same tartan.
The colors of tartans have always varied widely, depending on the
dyes used, from the soft colors of ancient organic dyes to the
brilliance of the 19th-century aniline dyes.
Scottish clan tartans as defined and worn today have developed
extensively within the past two centuries. During this period their
principal function has been to identify their wearers with a
particular name. However, the name of the wearer may not always be
the same as the tartan worn. Today the list of clan and family
tartans numbers over a thousand. Several clans have a "dress"
tartan to be worn on formal occasions, and there are also "hunt-
ing" tartan, usually of quieter shades.
This tile set is based on 35 tartans from "The Official Tartan Map
(of Tartans Approved by the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs or
the Lord Lyon King of Arms)," John Telfer Dunbar, FSA (Scot) and
Don Pottinger, M.A. (Hons). D.A., Publisher: Elm Tree Books -
Hamish Hamilton LTD., 90, Great Russell St., London WC18 3PT.
The clan associated with each of the tartans in this tile set is
listed below. In many cases it was not possible to use the entire
"sett" for a tile. In such cases, the center portion of the sett is
shown.
1. Arbuthnott
2. Barclay (Dress)
3. Borthwick
4. Brodie (Red)
5. Bruce
6. Clan Chattan
7. Douglas (Green)
8. Fraser
9. Gow
10. Hamilton
11. Henderson
12. Kincaid
13. Leslie (Dress)
14. Livingston
15. MacAulay
16. MacBeth
17. MacCallum
18. MacIain
19. MacLaine of Lochbuie
20. MacLeod of Lewis
21. MacMillan
22. MacQueen
23. MacTavish
24. Menzies (Dress)
25. Moncreiffe
26. Montgomerie
27. Napier
28. Ogilvy
29. Ramsay
30. Robertson
31. Ruthven
32. Scott
33. Scrymgeour
34. Sinclair
35. Stewart (Dress)
36. Stewart (Dress)
37. Stewart (Dress)
38. Stewart (Dress)
39. Stewart (Royal)
40. Stewart (Royal)
41. Stewart (Royal)
42. Stewart (Royal)