We are all influenced and inspired by some place. Everyone has some special place in their heart where they feel they belong, physically or spiritually, the Gaels call this:

Tir nan Og (a place of the heart).

Being Scottish I have grown up with tweeds and tartans, which are influenced by th surrounding countryside and depict to whom you belong. Shooting estates have their own tweeds and clans their own tartan. I would like to offer a contemporary alternative to this while still using the traditional methods. In these days of transnational culture, the old forms of identity no longer hold and people are free to make their own choices. The Scots in general and the Gaels in particular are great exiles we are always out of "place" and "time", this does not necessarily mean we want to return to the rain sodden hills but are forever searching for "home".