Quote Originally Posted by Kilted Stuart View Post
IMinor alterations to the sett size aside the colors should be basically the same or it's not really the same tartan.
Just as a point of clarification, the above is not exactly true. There has never been any kind of attempt in the tartan industry to regulate specific color shades. Nor could there be, with the dye lots differing from mill to mill, and even within the same mill over time. Imagine in the pre-industrial era when yarns were all dyed in (relatively) small batches by local crofters.

What is important is the color in general, not the specific hue. Thus you can have the MacGregor tartan, which is basically red and green (with a white & black stripe), but what shade of red or green is not prescribed. This is how you can get variations such as modern, ancient, muted, or weathered MacGregor -- all are the same MacGregor tartan just produced in different color schemes. And even the same "color scheme" (such as modern MacGregor) will likely have slightly different shades of red depending on whether it was produced by Lochcarron, or House of Edgar, or Marton Mills, or Strathmore, or your great-aunt Betty on her hobby handloom.

On the other hand, if you changed the red in the MacGregor tartan to blue, you'd have a different tartan entirely.

So, in the present case of the Isle of Skye tartan, it obviously has a different look in acrylic than in wool. But this is characteristic of all the acrylic kilts I've seen produced in Pakistan. The colors tend to be rather more vivid than the same tartan produced in Scottish wool. That may or may not be your cup of tea. My issue is not with the colors, but with the copyright violation, which would still be an issue even if the colors in acrylic were a dead ringer for the woolen tones.