Too many tartans to choose from....

[Benning Boy]

Here's a new variation done on the Scotweb tartan designer.

American Spirit revised.jpg

Don't know why in the previous post an actual photo appears, and in this one only a link appears. Sure wish someone would straighten out the pics issue.

I lost my thread count for the first version, so started over again. As you can see the proportions of color are differrent. There are, however, now two gold stripes on either side of a black stripe. In general, I like the way the colors are proportioned in the first vrsion over the second version.

The colors used are black, canary yellow, Illinois navy, scarlet and peroxide white. In the first version I used gold instead of canary yell. Neither hue quite matches what I see in my mind. If i were to get serious about having something like this woven, I'd work with pantone colors to get it absolutely correct, the national colors are specified exactly somewhere, I'd have to look it up again, and then see how close a weaver could come to matching those colors.

If I were rich, I'd have many meters of this woven in p/v. I think it would sell well, but what do I know, I don't have an MBA in marketing.

The original version wasn't all that well received, Eagle Scouts and flag fundamentalists thought it a sacrilege. Others have come up with American tartans based on colors suggested by the song America the Beautiful. I like them, but their message is somewhat hidden. My design wouldn't require much explanation when someone invariably ask what clan is that?