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2nd September 11, 11:53 AM
#21
 Originally Posted by Knockagarran
My eyesight isn't what it use to be. Having said that, the blue large squares appear slightly smaller than the large red and green sguares (I use the word square loosely...no pun intended!).
Did James Scarlett blow the thread count?
From my long past tartan weaving days I know that the "Taylor" tread count that was printed in this book is wrong. There may be other errors I'm not aware of.
JDS was indeed wrong. It's B/2 R84 B84 R16 W4 R16 G84 R84 B/2 (half pivot counts).
How did he get it so wrong? Simple, he can't have seen the original and was working from the old records in the Scottish Tartans Society archives.
On to the next (and very obvious) clue:
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