Comments on: Live Launch!

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 02:51:13 +0000

so when are you going to get your series on BBC, or made into movies?

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By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:37:19 +0000

I REALLY want to SEE this!! They really got the musical together quickly!! At least from the time I heard about it I am so happy for you Diana, and for Outlander, too!! Such a story that should be told over and over!!!! Bravo!!

By: Fantastyk Voyager

Fantastyk Voyager — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:02:20 +0000

How very exciting!! I really like the music too.

By: conleyk

conleyk — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:38:55 +0000

What absolutely wonderful music!!! I've already ordered the CD and can't wait to hear the whole thing. Someone made a comment on the website that they wanted to jump INTO the music!! Me, too. Have a wonderful trip, but keep writing, tho and remember to treat your knee gently. Thanks for the blog reports and for sharing the gifts of your imagination and writing. KC

By: Brittany

Brittany — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:10:47 +0000

The pictures are wonderful and the music is brilliant~
Hope you have a great trip! Really hope you have better luck with your luggage… didn't go with USAirways, did you? Have to tell you, though, I did get a good laugh at your expense. The luggage blog was great~

By: Karlita

Karlita — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:15:56 +0000

Bon Voyage Diana! have fun and bring us back a souvenir [g]

I agree with MichellekCanada, Allan looks great in that tartan ^^

By: nexusgrrl

nexusgrrl — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 06:42:45 +0000

Thanks Diana. I can't wait to hear the musical. Enjoy your trip to Scotland!

By: MichellekCanada

MichellekCanada — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 23:41:58 +0000

Regarding the tartan...I did google "Douglas" tartan and it was very close to what Allan was wearing. (He looks fabulous BTW)

So maybe it was his own personal kilt that he wore?

I love the height difference between "Jamie & Claire" Can't wait for my CD.

By: Diana Gabaldon

Diana Gabaldon — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:26:30 +0000

Dear nexus--

I don't know, and I doubt the current Frasers do, either. [g]

The thing about tartan patterns is that they're almost _all_ "modern"--as in, made during the 19th century, when the Lowland woolen merchants decided to make hay out of Queen Victoria's romantic attachment to the Highlands.

There are a few scraps of 18th-century tartans still extant, but there was no such thing as an "official" clan tartan. Men living in the same community undoubtedly wore similar setts, because they all got their cloth from the village weaver, who was using the local dye-plants. But Frasers in one spot were not necessarily wearing the same sett--or even the same colors--as Frasers living twenty miles away.

That said, what Allan's wearing there is plainly a modern sett, because you can't get that deep a blue without aniline dye. There are, though, at least a dozen "official" Fraser tartans, and that may well be one of them, for all I know. Then again, it may just be what they could find to fit somebody Allan's size. [g]