What's the deal with electronic swatches?

[OC Richard]

Here's MacLean of Duart, Suit Number 2

https://www.nms.ac.uk/discover-catal...rgian-scotland

Sometimes with those old weaves you can get sort of close by picking & choosing yarns from across the modern weaver's various colour-schemes.

For example Suit Number 1, tartan Kidd/Caledonia, the pale dull olive green and pale grey-blue are similar to the modern "weathered" green and blue by Lochcarron.

Though I see the green in Suit Number 2 looks quite dull, quite grey, Feldgrau, and isn't included in any of the modern tartan palettes. Marton Mills does have a tweed that colour.

[Jock Scot]

Here's MacLean of Duart, Suit Number 2

https://www.nms.ac.uk/discover-catal...rgian-scotland

Sometimes with those old weaves you can get sort of close by picking & choosing yarns from across the modern weaver's various colour-schemes.

For example Suit Number 1, tartan Kidd/Caledonia, the pale dull olive green and pale grey-blue are similar to the modern "weathered" green and blue by Lochcarron.

Though I see the green in some of those Georgian Highland suits looks quite dull, quite grey, Feldgrau, and isn't included in any of the modern palettes.

I did something similar about 10-15 years ago. I was rather fed up with my MacLeod of Harris colour shades, "ancient"( I think). I got hold of my kilt maker at the time to see what could be done. He got hold of the weaver and within a very short time I had three wool samples of five different shades of the required colours (15 in all) of what he thought was what was wanted on the colour front. I made a choice with the colours and also asked if a 10 inch sett was possible? Not a problem. Within a couple of months a length of cloth arrived at the kilt maker----------just precisely how I imagined(hoped) it would look. I suppose "muted modern" shades might describe it. Perfect! Within a fairly short time the new kilt pleated to the sett was ordered. The kilt arrived promptly and I have to say that the whole enterprise was very fairly priced.

It is my only kilt.

[Janner52]

I did something similar about 10-15 years ago. I was rather fed up with my MacLeod of Harris colour shades, "ancient"( I think). I got hold of my kilt maker at the time to see what could be done. He got hold of the weaver and within a very short time I had three wool samples of five different shades of the required colours (15 in all) of what he thought was what was wanted on the colour front. I made a choice with the colours and also asked if a 10 inch sett was possible? Not a problem. Within a couple of months a length of cloth arrived at the kilt maker----------just precisely how I imagined(hoped) it would look. I suppose "muted modern" shades might describe it. Perfect! Within a fairly short time the new kilt pleated to the sett was ordered. The kilt arrived promptly and I have to say that the whole enterprise was very fairly priced.

It is my only kilt.

Also a unique kilt from what you have described. That’s a dinner conversation.

[Jock Scot]

Also a unique kilt from what you have described. That’s a dinner conversation.

Do you know, we rarely discuss kilts and kilt attire in my circle of friends and family, these days. Actually few notice or care and of course modesty forbids............Anyway, its just another tartan amongst many others.

I posted a picture or two of the tartan before the kilt maker got to work on it and the result on this website, but I am not sure if that thread can be found now.

The only picture of that kilt that I am aware of being still there, on this website is in the witty(joke) thread section at the bottom of this website, headed
something like precautionary actions about not touching one's face during Covid time and the Scottish solution. I think that I made two contributions there and it is the second one there. Oh! It is in that thread that you will see the kilt amongst a gaggle of assorted military men at a wedding.

OH! I had a couple of pictures posted in the picture section here, about this time last year of Mrs Jock and me kilted out and about in the early Spring, but they disappeared, as they do , some time ago.

[MacKenzie]

OH! I had a couple of pictures posted in the picture section here, about this time last year of Mrs Jock and me kilted out and about in the early Spring, but they disappeared, as they do , some time ago.

These pics?

https://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/...ghlands-99094/

[Jock Scot]

These pics?

https://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/...ghlands-99094/

Gosh yes! At least they might give others an idea what the tartan looks like! Thank you.

[jsrnephdoc]

Gosh yes! At least they might give others an idea what the tartan looks like! Thank you.

I saw your reference (in the quoted thread containing the pics) to GoreTex as a contemporary insulating substitute for wool, but the latter may make a comeback. Gore is going out of the clothing business. GoreTex was originally invented by a guy whose mission was biologically inert tubular substitutes for pieces of human artery. Now that we are all terrified of "forever" chemicals, GoreTex may become "forbidden fruit."

A great uncle was a chemical engineer for DuPont and one of the inventors of Teflon (pfte), and GoreTex is another branding acronym for the same stuff. In my nephrology career, GoreText was temporarily the artery substitute of choice for making large artificial arteries that could be used to connect dialysis patients to their machines 3 times weekly, but, just as wool may be recruited again as "natural" so are REAL transplanted or repurposed human veins in place of pfte tubes. And, my uncle was THE family hero back 70 years ago, but today some might be raising placards on streetcorner demonstrations.

Such is progress.