Reproduction colors vs. modern colors?

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"Reproduction" is D.C. Dalgliesh's trade name for a palette of colors that attempts to evoke natural tones possible with dyes pre-dating 1745, and made from bark, berries, flowers... essentially older, non-chemical dyes. According to their website:

"The colourings of these Tartans offers a soft muted effect entirely reminiscent of the days when vegetable sources such as lichen, moss and alder bark provided the dyer with his raw materials."


Although some of what they claim has been dismissed as myth, the story they give is described on the left side of this web page: http://www.dcdalgliesh.co.uk/reproduction.rpy

I own a Buchanan in Dalgliesh's "Reproduction" colors, and it instantly became one of my favorite kilts.

This first shot is Helen, one of the kiltmakers at D.C. Dalgliesh, puting the finishing touches on my Buchanan Reproduction.



And here is the finished result.