Click the tartan to view its entry in The Scottish Registers of Tartans which includes registration details, restrictions, and registrant information.
Unregistered tartans may link to one of the web's online design environments for similar information.
For any questions about reproduction of designs or weaving of these tartans, please contact the registrant directly or via this website.
Christmas Celebrations
”Then old Fezziwig stood out to dance with Mrs. Fezziwig. Top couple, too; with a good stiff piece of work cut out for them; three or four and twenty pair of partners; people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking."
~ A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (1843)
Let your eyes dance with delight at this intensely festive tartan of many colors! Paired with a cup of good cheer, it just might inspire you to take a twirl yourself. Whether your holiday calendar is brimming with special events, musical gatherings, and ceilidhs, or you're savoring quieter evenings at home with classic Christmas movies and stories, this dazzling tartan will banish any lingering "Bah, Humbug!"
Today commemorates the publication of A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens’ timeless tale of hope and redemption, first released in London in 1843. In this classic story, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three unforgettable spirits—Christmas Past, Present, and Future—who guide him on a transformative journey to rediscover the spirit of Christmas and his humanity. The story captures the essence of the season, depicting Christmas celebrations across the social spectrum.
From the lively party of Scrooge’s youth hosted by the jovial Mr. and Mrs. Fezziwig—filled with music, laughter, and spirited dancing—to the humble yet heartwarming celebration of Bob Cratchit’s family, where love and good cheer triumph over poverty and illness, Dickens paints a vivid picture of the holiday's joys and challenges.
Other cherished Christmas memories echo through the pages of literature: Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory, Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows, and E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. Each offers its own reflection of the season’s magic and meaning.
However you choose to celebrate—or simply endure—the holiday season, may it bring you warmth, comfort, and a touch of festive sparkle. ❤️ 💚 🤎 💛 💙 ❤️ 📙🎄🎁 🍾 🥃
In Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, the main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly, bitter old man, is visited by three Christmas spirits on a Christmas Eve after a warning visitation by the ghost of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The three spiritis, the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Future offer Scrooge an opportunity to reflect back on his life and impact on others in in the past, present, and the life yet to be.
The Ghost of Christmas Past transports Scrooge back to his own youth on another Christmas Eve, when as a young apprentice he attended a festive holiday party held by Mr. and Mrs. Fezziwig each year for their employees:
"There were more dances, and there were forfeits, and more dances, and there was cake, and there was negus, and there was a great piece of Cold Roast, and there was a great piece of Cold Boiled, and there were mince-pies, and plenty of beer. But the great effect of the evening came after the Roast and Boiled, when the fiddler (an artful dog, mind! The sort of man who knew his business better than you or I could have told it him!) struck up “Sir Roger de Coverley.” Then old Fezziwig stood out to dance with Mrs. Fezziwig. Top couple, too; with a good stiff piece of work cut out for them; three or four and twenty pair of partners; people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking."
This tartan design by Carol A.L. Martin was created with the warm colours of an old-fashioned and merry Christmas Party.
For the abridged text of A Christmas Carol which Charles Dickens used on his public reading tours, click the illustration of Mr. Fezziwig's Ball, for a perfect length story for a Christmas reading of one's own, beginning with the memorable first line, "Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that."
and ending with a description of a transformed Ebenezer Scrooge ...
"... and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God Bless Us, Every One!"