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| Title (Provisional) |
Angove, the Black Swan | |
|---|---|---|
| Designed By | alarchdu (Neville J. Angove) | |
| Brief Description | Designed by Neville J. Angove. Based on the Black Watch tartan and other variations thereof. The Black Watch was chosen to represent the family tradition of serving in the armed forces. The designer's ancestors migrated to the coastal areas of Cornwall, Ireland, Wales and West Scotland in the 1500s (and earlier), and changed their norman name to the closest celtic equivalent of 'the smith'. Colours: green and yellow represent the further emigration of the celtic family in search of better lives in new pastures and the Australian currency of the designer. Based on Nelson of the Black Watch. Canary yellow is a substitute for gold, and replaces the "purple" or "carmillion" and the Ross Green is a more pleasing alternative for the darker green which originally replaced the mid-green of the original design. | |
| What Inspired the Design? | The Nelson of the Black Watch seemed the most pleasing version of the Black Watch. The Black Watch was chosen as a generic "warrior" design, reflecting the adventurousness of the family's forbears in migrating to Cornwall and fighting to establishing themselves as part of the Celtic Confederation with a Cornish name that reflected the Norman origins of that branch of the family. The facts that the ancestors who seemed to have been forced to change their name to "hide" were adventurers, opportunists, traders, explorers, exploiters and corsairs has nothing to do with anything. The Nelson design was chosen as the most aesthically pleasing of the Watch variants.The green and yellow were added to indicate the further immigration of the Celtic family to opportunities of better lives in newer passtures. The yellow and green were also coincident with the Australian currency of the designer, while not excluding the fact that the largest congregation of the Angove name outside of Corwall is in what was the new world of North America. | |
| Why did you choose these colours? | ||
| Maintaining the Black Watch idealistic origins. | ||
| Maintaining the Black Watch idealistic origins. | ||
| A more appropriate change that would not clash the the original colouring. | ||
| A more appropriate change that would not clash the the original colouring. The use of a more striking gold variant would have been out of character for a family that has sought invisibility. | ||
| Maintaining the Black Watch idealistic origins. | ||
| What meaning does the number or arrangement of lines have, if any? | The thiner yellow lines over the green lines stands for the immigration colours, but without detracting from the Watch colours. The blues and the arrangement of the lines pays heed to the Nelson Black Watch design. | |
| Does it represent a group or event (business, club, wedding, etc.)? | It represents something to carry my name and the family name around the world, and how we carried our new Celtic heritage from Cornwall. | |
| Is it associated with a locality (city, region, country etc.) | A richer and greener new world, Australia, Cornwall and Scotland. | |
| How do you plan to use it (garments, furnishings, etc)? | Garments, particularly the full kilt, ladies sash, and plaids. | |
| Do you expect to weave it, or produce it in other ways? | I expect to weave it, through Scotweb. | |
