Originally Posted by
figheadair
We can get a pretty good idea of what the original shades were like by examining sections that were not exposed to direct light and wear, in the seams for example. For the most part WoB shades could have faded to what we now have in the coat...
Very nice to know. So your reweave in WoB colours appears to be a plausible approximate representation of the original appearance of the tartan, the very thing I was wondering about.
For sure it seems pointless, to me, if someone were to reweave an 18th century tartan in any of the current modern colour-schemes ("ancient" "modern" "weathered" "muted").
Kudos to you for reweaving it in an appropriate 18th century colour-scheme.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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