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:
http://www.scoutstuff.org/items/ww02200/02200.jpg
or for more description, http://www.scoutstuff.org/cgi/catalog 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

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

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

--
Wendy
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"georg" wrote in message
...
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:
http://www.scoutstuff.org/items/ww02200/02200.jpg
or for more description, http://www.scoutstuff.org/cgi/catalog 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

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

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


Thank you!

-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.

http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/

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 wrote:
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.

http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/

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.

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

Georg,

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

Merry


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Howdy!
Is cotton "man-made" where you are, Merry? VBG
Ragmop/Sandy
"MerryStahel" wrote in message
...
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 wrote:
Georg,

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

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

-georg

georg,
I checked with my mom, and she said to try these places:
http://www.scottishlion.com/
http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/
http://www.ewm.co.uk/index.htm
http://www.scotlands.com/tp/

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.
--
Wendy
http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm
de-fang email address to reply


"georg" wrote in message
...
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:
http://www.scoutstuff.org/items/ww02200/02200.jpg
or for more description, http://www.scoutstuff.org/cgi/catalog 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

frood wrote:
georg,
I checked with my mom, and she said to try these places:
http://www.scottishlion.com/
http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/
http://www.ewm.co.uk/index.htm
http://www.scotlands.com/tp/

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.

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

-georg