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26 April 2024

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Tartan Details - Middleton, City of

The information held within The Scottish Register of Tartans for the "Middleton, City of" tartan is shown below.


STA ref:	6466
STWR ref:	none
Designer:	Schaffer, Barbara
Tartan date:	01/01/1972
Registration date:	This tartan was recorded prior to the launch of The Scottish Register of Tartans.
Category:	District
Restrictions:
Registration notes:	Middleton is a city near Madison in Wisconsin USA. Matt Newsome of the Tartans Museum in Franklin North Carolina, came across a reference to this tartan which was the winning design in a competition circa 1972 for an official city tartan. The contest was won by Barbara Schaffer with this (day) design plus a hunting one. Grey represents the lead mining, black & white for the railroad, brown for the peat extraction, the red line for the great Middleton fire of 1900 and then the red plus white representing Middleton High School. Barbara Schaffer gave one of the judges - who was from Scotland - both woven samples as souvenirs and they've never been seen since. It is thought that the tartan was never actually woven so it cannot be legitimately claimed that this is America's oldest city tartan. If it does get woven, then that's a different story. (Scottish Tartans Authority Jan 2005)

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