Black Isle

[cessna152towser]

The tartan can be made out in the first two photos, dwg69. Is this the same black kilt you were wearing in the recent thread started by Hamish entitled Kilted House Guests?
I'd be interested to know the difference between Black Isle and Dark Island, maybe the tartan patterns are different?

[RockyR]

I think Matt Newsome was the one who told me how the mills do that to make the "Shadow tartans".

Basically, you have the same color wool, but 1 set of strands are spun one direction (clockwise) and 1 set is spun counterclockwise. When you weave them, you change the set of strands from clockwise to counter for a few threads and then back again. Weave the whole pattern this way.

When you look at the tartan in DIRECT light, it's tough to tell there's a pattern there. When you look at it on an angle, the light reflects differently off of the clockwise than it does the counterclockwise, so the tartan appears.

Neat, huh?

[dwg]

The tartan can be made out in the first two photos, dwg69. Is this the same black kilt you were wearing in the recent thread started by Hamish entitled Kilted House Guests?
I'd be interested to know the difference between Black Isle and Dark Island, maybe the tartan patterns are different?

Yes this is the same Kilt when I was a guest at Lord Hamish Bicknell estate

Derek