The Tartans of US and Canada, #AtoZchallenge

I had a great time last year doing two A-Z Blogging Challenges. 
One covered the Southwest on my On the Edge travel blog [master A-Z list here]. 
The other were postings on my SpyGirl fashion blog [master A-Z list here] by my alter ego Enid.

This year, I'm taking up the gauntlet here and will be blogging the tartans of the US and Canada, A-Z.

[Original Map of North America with US States and Canadian Provinces by FreeVectorMaps.com]
Info on Canadian [Maple Leaf] tartan here -- Info on US tartan here

Did you know that there are official tartans for more than two thirds of the US states and for almost all of the Canadian provinces? 

It's true!

I originally did an art series with state tartans and maps and exhibited them in 2003.
At that time, I found 28 states that had tartans.

I created the tartan art in U4ia [now Lectra's Kaledo] and used vector maps from Cartesia [no longer available].

For this A-Z challenge, I recreated all the above tartans, and added the rest of the states and all the provinces.

Now I have to get the map art revised. 

This is from the original series. @2003

Does an A to Z Challenge sound like fun? 
There is still time to join in with 1000+ other bloggers. The 2016 sign up page is here, and will be open until 4/4/16. 
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