On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 12:39:19 -0500, (J T)
wrote:

http://www.currentmiddleages.org/tents/chair1tuam.pdf

I suppose as opposed to an English, or Scottish Tuam.

Tuam is a location in Ireland. Now a town, originally better known as
the archdiocese. The idea of a "Scottish Tuam" is as nonsensical as a
Windsor chair made outside Berkshire 8-)

I'm not familiar with this pattern of chair being described as a "Tuam
chair". As it happens, Tuam does have a famous chair but it's a stone
throne allegedly the coronation chair of the O'Connor kings.