Sorry I didn't want to beat a dead horse, but give an existing (and well-known) example the thing I was talking about.
Actually the same thing has happened with many of the tartans that have been around for a couple hundred years.
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.
Unfortunately there has been a tendency in recent years towards a thickening of the patterns, giving a clumsy and congested rather than rich effect. Greater refinement would not always entail weakness."
Last edited by OC Richard; 6th October 20 at 04:50 PM.
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