I see that the theme of the day for 30 November is St Andrews’s Day. The tag word is ‘tartan’
Does that mean that all the items submitted for St Andrews’s Day should be tartan?
I have Scottish landscape drawings that I could submit for the theme, but an a little concerned that as they are not ‘tartan’ I could get myself banned from the Theme of the Day.
Anyone got any thoughts on this?
My understanding is that we go with the tag word, regardless of matching or not the theme of the day description, as they are usually words that can be put as tags for completely unrelated to the actual theme items. (I wouldn’t change the tags from my tartan items just because it is used for something unrelated to them). This is why I would expect the tag word to match the theme of the day description, but that’s me been awkward I guess. You wouldn’t put “tartan” to an item that has nothing to do with “tartan”, so if I were you I would just ignore the theme of the day feature and use the tag “St Andrews Day” as this could be a search term for those who are looking for something related to the day.
Thank you, I’ll take the tag word off and do as you suggest. I’ll put a St Andrew’s Day tag on instead. Thanks for your help.
It’s a bit tricky because Folksy will take all the tartan tagged items for that day, and at the same time the title will be St Andrews Day. If you do search with the tag tartan you will see a mix of non tartan items that have been tagged for the day, and also lots of unrelated to the day, but tartan items. Here is the link Tagged items: tartan on Folksy so you can take an educated decision. 
Maybe put a nice board together with St Andrews Day items if you have the time 
I’m not going to risk it, I’ll just tag them with St Andrew’s Day.
My take on this is the other way round - the items tagged should fit the theme ‘St Andrew’a Day’, not ‘tartan’ - the tag is just Folksy’s way of finding it, they probably used tartan because St Andrews day would use a lot of characters, which are limited. Perhaps someone from @folksycontent could clarify?
I also think the emphasis is on St. Andrews day @theweeowlart as that’s the theme of the day, also when we have ‘Yorkshire day’ anyone who lives in Yorkshire can tag their work, I checked it out with Camilla at the time as I wasn’t sure whether it meant the items had to be Yorkshire themed and although they could be we could also tag as Yorkshire creators so I don’t think your items necessarily have to be tartan if they fit the theme of St.Andrews day.
While I agree the focus is on the St Andrews day, as this will be the name of the theme on the front page, the tag “tartan” is not specifically for that day, which means that by Folksy using it as a tag for something that specific, they automatically force all makers who have used this tag for something that it is tartan but not st Andrew’s related, into misusing the tag and appearing on that theme while they shouldn’t. Leading to frustrating users (sellers or not) who go there to see St Andrews items and they struggle to find any. The same if you pick “yellow” for lemon day. If you want to show lemons, the tag should be “lemons”. Not yellow, not zesty, not juicy or whatever, just Lemons. At the moment, the way it is, the theme St Andrews day will show loads of unrelated to the day tartan items, like Christmas cards and so on.
ETA: Not sure there is a lemon day, just used it as an example 
I hope they clarify, it would be very frustrating as a Scot to get a ban from theme of the day on St Andrew’s day!
Thanks for your reply. Im waiting to see if Folksy chip in on this one😉
I have a wee problem with being a bit too literal sometimes and this one is confusing me😆
A lemon day sounds nice, bring on lemon day!
Completely agree, this is a never ending issue with the TOTD, the tag definitely needs to be more specific, l think St.Andrews would have been more approproate for this not tartan. There was a tag a few days ago similar, ‘Letterbox gifts. I think there were actually a whole 19 items picked up from the category Letterbox gifts including 6 of my own the remaining hundreds were anything small that could fit in one but wern’t actually a letterbox gift, mainly jewellery. To me a letterbox gift wouldn’t just have a bracelet in it, there would be a card or note etc for the recipient.
I made a range of very small drawings for the letterbox gifts day and I did include an option for a gift message to be written on a card, I had cards specially printed for them.
I don’t think that was needed as such, even though I did it myself. I think as long as it was something that would fit in a letterbox and was nicely packaged it would be ok for the theme.
Yes it just seemed a bit strange that only 19 were listed under letterbox, it maybe wasn’t the best example 
it was just the most recent that came to mind. I didn’t see your letterbox gifts, I will have a look they sound a lovely idea.
Had a quick look, love your work and the letterbox gifts.
Thank you.
I saw a huge list of items under the letterbox gift theme, I’ll be honest with you, the selfish bit of me was a bit disappointed that my stuff was barely noticable among all the items!
It was a very well participated theme.