Fabric Quest: McLaren Tartan in cotton

Hi there!

My parents are very into Boy Scouts. Troop leaders at the various levels have training sessions of something called Wood Badge, and my parents are at the level where they volunteer to teach for Wood Badge. And one of the chosen symbols for Wood Badge is the McLaren tartan. Mom is a quilter and sewer of many things. She'd like a source for this tartan in cotton if at all possible. We know it exists because the Boy Scouts sell it as a table runner:

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and click Leaders -> Wood Badge -> table runner. The java won't let me link to just that item description. Am willing to trade fabric or money for the fabric. Will negotiate.

I have urged the parents to write to the Boy Scouts as to the distributers of the fabric, but they anticipate no solid response.

They have no interest in the fabric in wool- they only want it in cotton.

Thank you,

-georg

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georg
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My last name was McLaren before I married! Now it's Kuehr-McLaren, harder to get a tartan for!

I'll ask my mom is she knows anything about the tartan done in cotton.

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frood

Thank you!

-georg

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georg

House Of Tartan is one of the most famous ones in Scotland. It is where my daughters went and had the Gray plaid specially woven for me (they had to pay in advance and it was shipped several months later). We are a sept of the Camerons and the Sutherlands.

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I am not positively certain, but I believe I read somewhere...Mc is the Irish abbreviation - and Mac is the Scottish one. If you type in McLaren - it will bring you to MaClaren. If you type in MacLaren, it will bring you to MacLaren and all its attendent plaids.

HTH!

Merry

Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once

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MerryStahel

Yes, it's MacLaren Modern plaid, or McLaren modern, depending on which site you go to. The one mentioned above will do silk, wool, or made made materials, but Mom wants *cotton*. That's the hard part.

The Boy Scouts use the term McLaren, for whatever reason, hence my choice of term.

-georg

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georg

Georg,

Send them and email and ASK if they do cotton. They said they do some man-made fibers.

Merry

Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once

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MerryStahel

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Ellison

Cotton isn't man-made. But I'll ask.

-georg

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georg

georg, I checked with my mom, and she said to try these places:

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My father, Alan McLaren, always insisted that "McLaren" not "MacLaren" was the correct way. He also claimed that Alan was the only proper way to spell that name. Stubbornness is a family trait.

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frood

Thank you, Wendy! Forawrding this on to my mum.

-georg

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georg

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