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The Cloth of a Nation VOL. 1, NO. 3 JULY 2006 Our Valour© Contents Copyright © 2006 Contact Our Valour [email protected] The Cloth of A Nation By Brian Wilton, Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland Clan Logan Fact land’s largest weavers and retailers, to long- Box “It’s a great honour to be custodian of respected academics on both sides of the At- Did you know that Sir Robert Logan what must be the greatest international icon in lantic and private individuals and small busi- married the the world.” says Brian Wilton, Director of Op- nesses around the globe. daughter of King erations for the Scottish Tartans Authority. Its function in life? A bewilderingly wide Robert II? “There is no other textile design in exis- range of tasks epitomised by its slogan of tence which has the unique flexibility of tartan “Preserving the past, Promoting the Future”. - its infinite design possibilities that can per- One of its first projects was to establish an mutate up to six or more colours plucked from independent national archive of tartans. In the spectrum and then lay them out in an electronic form it is a huge database – the In- equally infinite number of ways. ternational Tartan Index (ITI) – in which are ISSUE There is no other textile design in the world safeguarded the patterns and histories of over CONTENTS which allows the wearer to celebrate and 6,000 tartans stretching from the Takla Makan proudly proclaim that “I come from this coun- tartan of around 1200BC to a new school tar- Cloth of a Nation 1 try ; this is my family; my clan; my city; dis- tan designed in 2006AD - last week in fact! trict, company, regiment, college, football Supplementing that are thousands of woven Clan Logan DNA 1 team; the list is almost endless!” samples that form the largest tartan cloth col- MacLennan Who? 1 Today’s guardians of the ‘cloth of a nation’ lection in the world. New tartans are added are the Scottish Tartans Authority — estab- each week – recent additions have come from Gowrie Conspiracy 3 lished in 1995 and funded by membership sub- Norway, Austria, Switzerland, Australia and of scriptions, contributions from the tartan indus- course the USA – and applicants line up to get Bethabara Games 5 try and fees for the range of services it offers. A Look Back 6 Its supporters and members range from Scot- Continued on PG 2 The Story Behind 8 Dùrachdan 9 Clan Logan DNA Research MacLennan Who? The Steam Boat 10 By J.J. “Jim” Logan, McLean, VA, USA By Frank Logan, Dartmouth, NS, Canada In the first installment we introduced you to What Clan do you belong to? Many the Pre1800Logans group and associated Logan’s have become members of Clan Logan DNA Project. We gave you some his- MacLennan, but have they joined the wrong tory and our motives. In this installment we clan? will introduce you to DNA and its possible In the last segment we covered the position utility to genealogy. This will provide back- of the Office of Lord Lyon, in that clan Logan ground helpful in interpreting the results of our was considered a clan without a Chief. We ongoing project. also learned that the last known Chief of that @ In describing DNA, I will use (with permis- name was George Logan of that Ilk, who regis- Produced by HIGHLANDER Graphics for The Clan Logan sion) two graphics from a tutorial available at tered his arms in 1673 with the Public Register Society International Continued on PG 4 Continued on PG 2 VOL. 1, NO. 3 PAGE 2 The Cloth of A Nation Continued from PG 1 tion and advice is a very large - and wel- Scottish mill and turned into valuable come - part of the Authority’s many articles of heritage clothing in the hands their tartans Recorded (Registered) in the tasks. It’s particularly keen on education of skilled sewers and kilt makers. ITI and receive an illuminated certificate. and has recently devised and delivered a A very pleasurably function in which The Authority also established its programme for primary schools, which an increasing part is played by the Au- highly regarded website which now at- mixed history and craft to excellent ef- thority in it’s new headquarters and tracts up to 1500 visitors a day at times, fect with the end product being a new showroom, is identifying and promoting the majority of them looking for their school tartan designed by the pupils. small craft operators whose imagination tartan. Letters, e-mails and phone calls Dealing with the tartan industry and and flair are using tartan in many innova- besiege the Authority’s new Perthshire lobbying on its behalf is another ex- tive ways – hand-woven evening shawls headquarters at times – asking a multi- tremely important task. With cheap tartan to match a partner’s kilt or the revival of tude of questions – “Where can we get imports threatening jobs and jeopardising 18th century Mauchline jewellery. “In this tartan? What should I wear to a Scot- the whole high-quality image of Scot- these days of the Internet,” explained tish Ball? Where can I buy tartan ribbon? land’s Highland dress industry, there’s Brian, “working from a croft in some Can you identify the tartan in this black plenty work for the Authority to do. That isolated community is no bar to access- and white photograph? Will you design a includes not only fighting the tartan forg- ing an international market. Buyers are tartan for our company? Will you come ers from poorer developing countries but becoming much more discerning and are and talk to our club?” also highlighting the benefits of buying willing to pay a premium for products The dispensing of such free informa- the ‘Real McCoy’ tartan, crafted in a from the ‘old country’ that have that magic touch of individual craft skills. If we can help workers in those rural com- MacLennan Who? munities, then we will have performed a Continued from PG 1 very useful role.” “Dealing with the Part of the Authority’s archives is an of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland. extensive library of rare books on tartan, To flesh out the rest of the story, we must tartan industry and Highland dress and clan history — an start to break down some of the persistent extremely valuable resource for research- ers and historians. There is still much myths which have surrounded our two lobbying on its clans for some time. research to be undertaken according to the Authority and one of the fruitful areas The first myth surrounds the tartan behalf is another which our two clans wear. First recorded is North America. “When the Scots emi- grated,” said Brian Wilton, “they would in 1831 by writer James Logan (1794- extremely important 1872), in his book "The Scottish take their tartans with them. Settled, far Gael" (ISBN 0 85976 021 9), the name away from home, those tartans assumed a for this tartan was and still is Logan. The task” -Brian Wilton much greater significance and would be only known reference to this tartan be- viewed with nostalgia. That resulted in ginning it’s association with clan Continued on PG 3 MacLennan, is the MacLennan print by R. R. McIan. McIan (1803-1856), was the master- not a surprise and allows them to pay true outcome. If the stories of the mind behind "The Clans of The Scottish homage to the story of the origin of MacLennan origin are taken at face Highlands" (ISBN 0 907486 38 X) which MacLennan. value, and can be believed, this would was published in 1848. McIan, did all of It should also be noted, that until the make them a true clan in their own right. the illustration, while James Logan pro- early 19th century there were no such The founder of the MacLennan’s was vided all of the text. The information thing as “clan” tartans, and there is a at best the great grandson of Gilliegorm provided to Logan on the history of our mountain of evidence to prove this for Logan (a mythical Chief of Clan Logan clan pointed to an ancient link between anyone who wishes to do a quick search from circa 1372), and was far removed the Logan’s and MacLennan’s. There on the subject. from the holdings of the clan Logan. The was still room for other explanations, It would appear that due to the sly MacLennan were subservient to clans which we will cover in more depth lat- wink by McIan in regards to the print of Fraser and MacKenzie at various times. ter. The print for MacLennan, shows a 1848, the Logan tartan would be by con- The issue of Chiefly Arms has come fellow from this clan wearing the Logan sequence clamed by the clan MacLen- up as a point of contention, with the heart tartan, but no name is given to it unlike nan. of the Bruce being incorporated into the every other clan tartan shown. Given the With the subject of clan origins, the Arms of the MacLennan Chief, being style of writing at the time and subtlety's topic has become more heated, but if the used by both the artist and writer, this is facts are laid out, there can only be one Continued on PG 4 VOL. 1, NO. 3 PAGE 3 The Cloth of A Nation The Logan Family of Restalrig and the Gowrie Conspiracy Continued from PG 2 By Stephanie Logan Falls, Plano, TX, USA was kidnapped by a group of Protestant many of them being stored away in nobles headed by William Ruthven, Earl chests and attics, and to this day they’re This article, the second in a series, will of Gowrie, and was held virtual prisoner until he escaped the next year.
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