https://www.tartandictionary.org/tags/recovery/Recent content in Recovery on Tartan DictionaryHugoenSun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.tartandictionary.org/posts/walkers-shortbread-tartan/Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.tartandictionary.org/posts/walkers-shortbread-tartan/<p>Few tartans are seen by more people than the red one wrapped around a box of <strong>Walkers Shortbread</strong> — a Speyside biscuit, &quot;established 1898&quot;, sold the world over in its tartan livery. In 2016 Walkers registered that packaging as a UK trade mark (<a href="https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/page/Results/1/UK00003180795">UK00003180795</a>), and the device shows the tartan plainly.</p> <p><img src="walkers-shortbread-trademark.jpg" alt="The Walkers Shortbread packaging, UK trade mark UK00003180795" title="Walkers Pure Butter Shortbread — UK trade mark UK00003180795 (2016)"></p> <p>It is usually called Royal Stewart, but a glance at the cloth is enough to doubt that — the ground is right, but the green blocks are too large and there is no white overcheck. So the question for this post is the narrow, hands-on one: <strong>what is the sett?</strong></p>