Weaving the Rudolf Heil tartan (STR #12369)

[Rod Roy]

Hiyas!

I designed a modest tartan, and now that it has been registered I would like to get it woven soon. Now I hope the experts in the forum will share their thoughts on the designing of the selvedge.

Since I would want 40 counts for the dark green fields, I´ve had the idea to enlarge the sett and get it as close as possible to the sett size of the Private´s Plaids of the 42nd regiment. The original threadcount of the tartan is DB/58 G6 DB6 G32 DG32 G6 DG32 G32 DB32 G6 DB/6 which I have enlarged to DB/74 G6 DB6 G42 DG40 G6 DG40 G42 DB40 G6 DB/6.

The wide blue field in the sett has by chance 74 threads which is as far as I know the traditional width for the selvedge for Fine Kilts (42nd tartan, large sett). Further, the Olive in the sett is in the same place as the Black in the 42nd and, as far as I know, the selvedge of a 42nd tartan is black, e.g. 48 threads instead of 32 threads for Coarse Kilts, and in my case possibly 74 threads, either Blue or Olive.



Selvedge Blue 74




Selvedge Olive 74




Question #1:
Do you think I should combine the sett size of the Private´s Plaids with the selvedge size for Fine Kilts?

Question #2:
Should I choose Blue or Olive for the herringbone selvedge?

Question #3:
Would you advise to choose another width for the selvedge?



Thank you in advance.



Yours Aye,

Rod