Hunting Tartan

[Jerry]

Does anyone know why several clans have a Hunting Tartan while some do not?

[Kyle2 MacLea]

My guess is that it is more a matter of which Clans had a well-publicized enough effort to put together a Hunting Tartan.

[Canadian Livingstone]

Hi Jerry, Since most of the more vicious wildlife long ago indigenous to Highlands has been extinct since before the bronze age and most of the remaining wildlife is largely colour blind I think that the Highland Livingstones can safely hunt in their classic 1003 tartan with its bright green and red without too much problem.

[Jerry]

Donald, One can never be too safe when trouncing thru the Highlands.

[Canadian Livingstone]

Hi Jerry, Are you familiar with the British company group Monty Pythons Flying Circus. Their tv show and subsequent movies were quite popular in both Britain and over the pond so to speak. Their film Monty Python and the Holy Grail featured some fearless knights battling a vicious man eating rabbit that lived in a cave surrounded by the bones of those poor souls he had devoured. So assuming the Monty Python movie was historically accurate, the British Isles had at least one potentially vicious, rodent like carnavore during the middle ages that might have migrated into the highlands and might have presented a formidable challenge to even the bravest clan warrior armed with a broadsword. This may well explain why there are so few Livingstones today in the Western Argyll. D

[Jerry]

Yes Donald,

[Canadian Livingstone]

Yes our warrior clansman dressed in their bright red and green tartan would have been quickly detected by those nasty rabbits and they would have been quickly dispatched and digested by them. Rob Livingstone once told me that he could not find hide nor hare of Livingstones around Savary at Movern near the Isle of Lismore where my family once dwelled in great numbers. Perhaps the story of the clearances is just a government coverup of the nasty rabbit problem in the highlands. They had to think of some plausible explanation why all those people disappeared from their farms. So say they all left their tenant holdings and went to Canada, Australia or Glasgow. Brilliant. I mean imagine the panic among the highlanders if word leaked out that Argyllshire was infested with nasty rabbits with nasty teeth and claws. You may have good idea afterall about introducing a new hunting tartan with colours that cant be detected by these little furry creatures. Although these bunnies are pretty cunning and extremely nasty, we may be able to force them back across the English border with the staff of St. Molaug and GOd on our side. And we have your textbook battle military knowledge gathered from the likes of Washington, Sherman and Patton to outwit these sly creatures. I mean how smart can they be. They are rodents for God's sake. regards D

[Jerry]

Donald, Lets hope the Chinese scientists do not get a hold of any of those highland hare fossils.

[Canadian Livingstone]

Hi Jerry, Cloned rabbits or sheep may well be the opening of a pandora's box for the human race.It seems almost evitable that scientists somewhere will continue the cloning process putting ethical considerations aside. The power to create a cloned human must be very tempting. If they succeed the implications however are too frightening to contemplate. A future world with perfect people all identical. How scary is that. On a lighter note I am a bit of an aspiring amateur inventor and I recalled that somewhere a while back I came up with "Cama Tartan" that might be what your looking for in a potential Livingstone highland hunting tartan. My basic idea (if no one has thought of it already) is to produce a camoflage tartan pattern. It could come in khaki or green camoflage shades. For hundreds of years tartan has been plaid so there are many obstacles to overcome before a camoflage tartan would be accepted by the Scots worldwide. Also many of the highland knitters might not be alble to knit camoflage. Getting Lord Lyon to approve a camoflage tartan might also be difficult. He might think its a stupid idea. If approved however who knows it might soon grow to become a popular tartan like Royal Stewart and I predict popular among hunters in the highlands. Anyways thought I would pass this idea to you and see what you think of "Cama Tartan" for a Livingstone Hunting Tartan. regards D

[Canadian Livingstone]

Yes our warrior clansman dressed in their bright red and green tartan would have been quickly detected by those nasty rabbits and they would have been quickly dispatched and digested by them. Rob Livingstone once told me that he could not find hide nor hare of Livingstones around Savary at Movern near the Isle of Lismore where my family once dwelled in great numbers. Perhaps the story of the clearances is just a government coverup of the nasty rabbit problem in the highlands. They had to think of some plausible explanation why all those people disappeared from their farms. So say they all left their tenant holdings and went to Canada, Australia or Glasgow. Brilliant. I mean imagine the panic among the highlanders if word leaked out that Argyllshire was infested with nasty rabbits with nasty teeth and claws. You may have good idea afterall about introducing a new hunting tartan with colours that cant be detected by these little furry creatures. Although these bunnies are pretty cunning and extremely nasty, we may be able to force them back across the English border with the staff of St. Molaug and GOd on our side. And we have your textbook battle military knowledge gathered from the likes of Washington, Sherman and Patton to outwit these sly creatures. I mean how smart can they be. They are rodents for God's sake. regards D