Project- Our own tartan design

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In The Setts Of The Scottish Tartans (1950) DC Stewart writes

"...changes of fashion are to be observed in the relative proportions of the elements of which a design is made up.

A comparison of the setts given by Logan (1831) with those used now shows a change during the interval. Many of Logan's counts give patterns that seems weak when set beside more recent examples. The fine lines are relatively finer, and the open spaces more open; there are greater differences in the widths of adjacent bands than we see now.

Stewart's comment is valid but what he never realised was that most of Logan's counts were hopelessly inaccurate because he clearly didn't understand what a pivot was or how to record a threadcount.