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Saving and Sharing your Tartan Design
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Once you have saved a tartan design in our system, you can name and describe it in detail. This will help friends and others to appreciate and understand the ideas and inspirations that lie behind the tartan you have created. Firstly you should give your tartan a Name, which should ideally be unique, but we do (More...)
Official Recording of your Design
Official recording of new tartan designs is now undertaken by the Scottish Register of Tartans, at Register House in Edinburgh. We would advise that you consider recording your tartan if you intend to have it woven for anything other than personal use (e.g. for a club or company) as this provides institutional support to your (More...)Saving for your own future use
Your designs will normally be saved automatically during your visit. (Your computer must have ‘cookies’ enabled for this feature to work.) However, if you begin a new design, your earlier work will be lost. If you wish to return to a tartan you are designing on a later occasion, you must first log-in to the Members’ (More...)Sharing Tartan Designs in the Scotweb Gallery
You can share any of your tartan designs in Scotweb’s tartan Gallery, so that other people can enjoy and perhaps respond to your creative ideas. Just click the ‘Share in Gallery’ checkbox in your design’s Details section, which will become available as soon as you save it for the first time. Your design will then (More...) We recommend that all tartan designs saved into our systems should be given a unique name. This may not duplicate any name previously recorded by any other user, nor the name of any tartan recorded by the Scottish Tartans Authority, the Scottish Register of Tartans, or any other body whose authority we recognise. Names should be (More...)