Tartan Design Idea (Phase Two I guess)

[AFS1970]

OK so a few months ago I posted this thread about designing a tartan. I sort of updated it but it seems to have died a natural (in an internet kind of way) death. So I am posting the update in a new thread.

So what I had to start with was the County Armagh tartan, which I realize is a fashion tartan and not really historical but it would do for these purposes.



I knew that I wanted to have a blue based tartan and not a green based tartan so my first adaptation was to change the greens to blues, which gave me this:



This was OK, but seemed rather dull looking to me. It also lacked the black and white that I wanted to include in it. So I added a white stripe to either side of the red stripe and a black stripe in between the gold stripes, giving me this:



That made the thinner stripes far too dominant to my eye, so I wanted to change that. I made the gold and white stripes a bit thinner and I moved the red/white stripes a bit further away from the dark blue. This gave me what I think is a good design worth submitting.



I am open to comments and suggestions, but I think this at least adds the colors I wanted, changes the design a bit but still keeps enough features from the original to work.

[Mike S]

All three are very handsome tartans, especially in the more muted tones presented.

[Mike_Oettle]

Not sure that this design is enhanced by the use of grey, rather than pale blue. I have a strong dislike of grey in tartan. While there are some grey tartans that have a respectable antiquity (a few dating back to before the proscription), but it is frightfully common nowadays, in more ways than one.
Regards,
Mike

[AFS1970]

No grey in it, although the lighter blue is a muted color, it is definitely a blue on the tartan design website.

[MacKenzie]

I like the final iteration. Lots of to-the-stripe pleating options, I think.

[figheadair]

Mike, I can't think of any grey tartan that can definititely be classed as pre-Prosription , as opposed to prohibition, which is a myth.

QUOTE=Mike_Oettle;1289806]Not sure that this design is enhanced by the use of grey, rather than pale blue. I have a strong dislike of grey in tartan. While there are some grey tartans that have a respectable antiquity (a few dating back to before the prohibition), but it is frightfully common nowadays, in more ways than one.
Regards,
Mike[/QUOTE]

[Mike_Oettle]

Thanks, Peter, for the heads up. I have corrected it.

[figheadair]

Thanks, Peter, for the heads up. I have corrected it.

Mike, at risk of going off topic, I cannot think of one predominately grey tartan that is pre-Proscription.

[Mike_Oettle]

Peter, I’ll PM you when I have a chance.