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The Royal Stuart (or Royal Stewart) tartan, first published in 1831, is the best-known tartan of the royal House of Stuart/Stewart, and is one of the most recognizable tartans. Today, it is worn by the regimental pipers of the Black Watch , Scots Guards , and Royal Scots Dragoon Guards , among other official and organisational uses.
This sett description uses single letter tartan color codes followed by a number indicating the number of threads wide at that color. Most colors have a separate code for a lighter or darker shade of the primary color, and the exact color tone of any color code (including some user-defined codes) can be specified.
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Darker tartans are recognized as being hunting tartans, and with hunting being a large part of the Inuit culture, this is also reflected by the dark blue. White – the use of this colour four times represents the great impact that ice and snow has upon the lifestyle in the north, while depicting the purity of the new territory.
Scottish Register of Tartans notes on this sett: "The Prince Charles Edward sett is essentially the Royal Stewart but for the much reduced red square. Wilsons of Bannockburn included it in their 1819 Key Pattern Book, the details indicate that they had been weaving it for a number of years and it seems likely that the naming was theirs.
Tartan is both a mass noun ("12 metres of tartan") and a count noun ("12 different tartans"). Today, tartan refers to coloured patterns, though originally did not have to be made up of a pattern at all, as it referred to the type of weave; as late as the 1820s, some tartan cloth was described as "plain coloured ... without pattern".
Tartan Main article Australian Capital Territory: Coat of arms of Canberra [Note 2] Royal bluebell: Gang-gang cockatoo: Brush-tailed rock-wallaby: For the King, the Law and the People: Blue and gold Batocara mitchelli' [8] City of Canberra tartan [Note 3] Symbols of Australian Capital Territory [9] Northern Territory: Coat of arms of the ...
Several tartans for Cornish families have been created and registered in modern times, e.g. for family get-togethers and weddings. Most of the following have been registered with the Scottish Tartans Authority or with Scottish Tartans World Register (reference numbers shown below, where applicable), and thus are also included in the newer database of the Scottish Register of Tartans.