Talk:Regimental tartan

Additional sources

 * Vol. 1 (rev'd. 1882 ), Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4, Vol. 5, Vol. 6, Vol. 7, Vol. 8 – Old, so treat as primary source.
 * At JSTOR, paywalled.
 * – This is only a 48-page booklet, and with shipping costs it will be about $30, but I ordered it anyway, because it may have info on some of the more obscure regiments. A detailed review here indicates that most of the material in it that we would use already appears in compressed form in Tartan: The Highland Textile, and our article already contains those relevant facts. So, this may not have been a good purchase.
 * – Treat like a primary source; it reads like it was written in 1808 not 1908. Whatever revision Learney did, it is invisible. Anything usable from it has already been used, with regard to tartan, but maybe it has something in it of value about the regiments, or Highland dress in general.
 * – Has a chapter on the Highland regiments that might be of use.
 * – Old enough it has to be treated as primary; most of what it says of relevance has been reused by later writers, but it may have something on regimental tartans or whatever that could be used.
 * In 3 vols. Newest research, so won't be found on Google Books or anything. Will have to buy it outright or get it through inter-library loan if possible. Associated website:.
 * – I have this.
 * "In 1969, W. A. Thorburn was the keeper of the United Services Museum in Edinburgh and produced a paper on Military Tartans ..." (full citation was not present). This is most likely a paper in Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research for which Thorburn was a regular writer for over a decade, but it could have been in Bulleting of the Costume Society of Scotland, in which he was also publishing (e.g. "The White Cockade", November 1973).
 * – I have this on order.
 * – Undated and surely outdated; it definitely pre-dates 2010 (library accession in 2009), but post-dates 2005 (Royal Regt. of Scotland dates to 2006).
 * – Potentially of use for the regimental tartans section. Available online, so not ordering it. There are lots of other books like this available through Internet Archive ; search for "Scottish Regiment" and "Highland Regiment".
 * Second edition: 1863, London / Glasgow: Ward & Lock / Thomas Murray & Son.
 * – I have this.
 * – Vol. I doesn't appear to be available online.
 * – Has a few mentions of tartan in it, mostly pertaining to when regiments stopped/started wearing it or switched to/from trews.
 * Richard Cannon's series of 19th-century Historical Record ... books of various regiments (mostly English, but some might be Highland). Google Books search:
 * – Two volumes; B&W illustrations and some tipped-in colour plates. Potentially of some use; goes back to at least the 17th century.
 * – Vol. I doesn't appear to be available online.
 * – Has a few mentions of tartan in it, mostly pertaining to when regiments stopped/started wearing it or switched to/from trews.
 * Richard Cannon's series of 19th-century Historical Record ... books of various regiments (mostly English, but some might be Highland). Google Books search:
 * – Two volumes; B&W illustrations and some tipped-in colour plates. Potentially of some use; goes back to at least the 17th century.
 * – Two volumes; B&W illustrations and some tipped-in colour plates. Potentially of some use; goes back to at least the 17th century.

— SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  11:16, 4 August 2023 (UTC); rev'd. 03:58, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

Fencible regiments
Covering their tartans may be difficult, as sourcing is thin. One bit to use later: "The origins of the MacDonald (Clan Donald) tartan are equally vague [with that of Cameron of Erracht] but the similarity between the two, and also the MacDonell of Glengarry, suggests that the latter two were also military, probably Fencible, tartans, a theory supported by MacDonell of Glengarry in a letter in which he refers to the tartan being worn by his regiment." This is from (already cited elsewhere in the regimental section): — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  15:00, 8 August 2023 (UTC)