Closest USA Kilts tweed colour

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For those who not already familiar with the book, Johnstons of Elgin brought out a revised and reworked edition of their 'Scottish Estate Tweeds' a couple of years ago.

It is be no means an exhaustive account and listing of all tweeds currently available, but it shows those that have been designed or adopted by various Scottish estates during the past couple of centuries. The book not only names the various tweeds, but gives a brief history behind their design, and some of the colours used, and why.

Having a name to identify the tweed is useful, particularly as many weaving mills identify their cloths numerically. Gun checks, or Gun Club, is a generic term now used for a particular style, but it helps to know whether a particular tweed is Coigach, Blairquhan or Lochmore when the differences are subtle but important. All these might be produced by a number of different weavers, each giving the cloth a number that would mean nothing to another mill or even a tailor.

It is a shame the samples shown are (pretty accurate for colour and texture) photographs - if each tweed illustrated was an actual swatch of the cloth, the book would be a tweed adict's dream..!