i want to buy a kilt, im 90% irish, so does that mean i only need the colors iof my familys county?

Question

i know the scots have tartans by family name, but the irish just go with their county........this true?

Answer 1

No,
It started out that irish kilts were only based on the counties, but throughout some time, family tartans arose.

Answer 2

RE:
i want to buy a kilt, im 90% irish, so does that mean i only need the colors iof my familys county?
i know the scots have tartans by family name, but the irish just go with their county........this true?

Answer 3

Yes, as far as I know, that's true, at least according to the House of Tartans web site. Their link to Irish tartans is below. I purchased some of my family's tartan from them (I'm of Scottish and Irish descent), and they shipped very promptly, and were very nice when I needed help.

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilt#Irish_kilt------a bit of the history:


Incontrast to the Scottish kilt, the Irish Lein-croich traditionally was made from solid color cloth, with saffron and green being the most widely used colors. Solid colored Irish kilts can often be seen in 19th and early 20th century photos in Ireland especially at political and musical gatherings. The kilt was used as a symbol of Gaelic nationalism in Ireland during this period. Tweed kilts were also not uncommon in both Scotland and Ireland and have been popular with sportsmen, fishermen, and hunters.

Many "Irish County" tartans were designed by Polly Wittering, first produced in 1996 by the House of Edgar, of Perth in Scotland. Marton Mills in West Yorkshire came up with an "Irish County Crest Collection" of county tartans. There are also a number of "Irish District" tartans most of which are recent designs by Lochcarron of Scotland. The Ulster tartan is one of the oldest registered Irish tartans. It was found by a farmer, W.G. Dixon, in County Londonderry in 1956 as he uncovered pieces of clothing made from the design. The Belfast Museum and Art Gallery dated the material from between the 1590s to 1650s. Its exact origins are unknown, but it is likely that came from a Scottish pioneer during the beginning of the Ulster plantation period when the Scots first came in great numbers to Ulster. There are other generic Irish tartans including the Irish National, St. Patrick's, Tara, and Clodagh. Some Irish family tartans have been appearing over the years, although these are few at the moment more are being created. O'Brien, Sullivan, Murphy, Fitzpatrick, and Forde are fairly common examples of Irish family tartans.

In present day Ireland the kilt is still seen very much as being primarily Scottish, and the current crop of county and district tartans are largely unknown in Ireland and indeed difficult to obtain, having been designed and marketed primarily with the Irish-American market in mind. As they have neither been designed or manufactured in Ireland itself ,it is questionable as to whether they can be strictly described as Irish. Irish Tartans? In the book District Tartans by Gordon Teall of Teallach and Philip D Smith Jr (ISBN 0 85683 085 2) only three tartans are identified as being distinctly Irish, these are Ulster, Tara, and Clodagh. As noted above the Ulster tartan originates from around 1590–1650 and is probably Scottish in origin. The Tara was first noted around 1880 and was originally called Murphy. The Clodagh has an earliest date of 1971 with uncertainty as to its original designer or first appearance.

On a day-to-day basis kilt wearing is rarely if ever encountered. Within the world of Irish dancing the boy's kilt has been largely abandoned, especially since the worldwide popularity of Riverdance and the revival and interest in Irish dancing generally.

There are two exceptions to these trends in Ireland.

A vibrant piping scene in Ireland means that there are many kilted bands throughout the whole of Ireland particularly in the north of the island. The vast majority of these bands wear tartan kilts, the solid colour saffron kilt being almost exclusively the preserve of the pipe bands of the Republic's Defence Forces and the British Army's Irish regiments.

The appearance of the kilt at Irish weddings is becoming increasingly common either for the groom or more usually for the male guests. Reasons for the increased wearing of kilts at Irish weddings are probably twofold: It is an alternative to the more usual suit and is once again being seen as an outward sign of celtic origins.

Answer 5

Lein-croich

Answer 6

http://www.kilts.com/irishkilts.htm

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