 Wisconsin one step closer to
official state tartan
(Madison,
WI) The state Assembly recently passed a bill to establish an official
tartan. Though tartans, textile patterns consisting of various
colored bands displayed perpendicular to one another against a solid
background, are most often associated with Scotland, at least 38 U.S.
states already have their own official tartans.
When
asked of the importance of an official state tartan the bill's author,
Representative Tim Lothian (R-Williams Bay), responded, "Historically,
tartans served to identify a small group of Scottish highland clans but
we're starting to adopt the fabric signature here as well," adding,
"Now, when I'm running through O'Hare to catch a connection I may be
recognized at a glance by, say, Illinoians or Michiganians and we may
either welcome each other heartily or engage broadswords, as the case
may be."
The proposal (AB212) states Wisconsin's tartan shall consists of
“8 threads of cheddar yellow, followed by 2 threads of dirty-snow grey, 20 threads of soybean green, 4 threads of nitrate-runoff red, 20 threads of soybean green, 8 threads of manure brown, 20
threads of soybean green, 4 threads of nitrate-runoff red, 20 threads of soybean green, 32 threads of
dirty-snow grey, 56 threads of winter-depression blue, 2 threads of dirty-snow grey, and 8 threads of winter-depression blue at
which point the weave pivots and returns, beginning with 2 threads of
dirty-snow grey, and continuing the sequence in reverse order through 8 threads of cheddar yellow, at which point it pivots back again.”
In order to become a law the
measure must still be passed by the state Senate and signed by the
governor, a final step which could prove problematic given Governor Jim
Doyle's references to the proposal during a recent press conference as "that bill about plaid skirts or whatever."
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