I'm from Cumbria and proud of it. I'm making a bush shirt and I wondered if there was a Cumbrian or North Western tartan or tartan-equivalent (as in a traditional woven, patterned fabric).
I aware of the somewhate fluid history of names and borders in The North West of th UK. I consider myself to be Cumbrian and that's fine, but I'm also happy to use a patten which is associated with that area in general, or with a defined area which was once where Cumbria is now or vice-versa (Westmorland, West Ridings etc.).
All help appreciated, thanks
You could try the tartans of the various border reiver clans if you are related to any of them. Alternatively you could make it from Kendal Green which was a coarse woolen cloth produced in Kendal from around 1500 and dyed with woad to turn it blue and then over dyed with a yellow to give its greyish green final colour. The famous "Kendal Bowmen" who fought at Agincourt supposedly wore this cloth. Kendal Green is also mentioned in Henry IV part I where Falstaff says to prince Hal "But as the devil would have it, three misbegotten knaves in Kendal green came at my back, and let drive at me, for it was so dark, Hal, that thou couldst not see thy hand."