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    Colorado Colors


    That looks a little muted to my eye

    Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot View Post
    That doesn't look like the Colorado Tartan I'm familiar with:

    http://www.district-tartans.com/colorado.htm

    http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/Color..._colorado.html

    It may be a variant, but it looks to "green"...

    T.
    The swatch at the end of that first link is blindingly bright, kind of a "Bright Skye" Colorado.

    The second is to muted even more so than the second link.


    Here is the tartan in the real world and even that photo [me BTW] looks brighter than real life here in my living room for reference.

    I had thought about getting it pleated to the gold stripe and even asked them to do it after I had placed the initial order but they ignored/ did not get/ overrule me and I have loved it pleated to the sett. I am guessing that Nighthawk loves it to as he has ordered one ith:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cerebite View Post

    That looks a little muted to my eye


    The swatch at the end of that first link is blindingly bright, kind of a "Bright Skye" Colorado.

    The second is to muted even more so than the second link.


    Here is the tartan in the real world and even that photo [me BTW] looks brighter than real life here in my living room for reference.

    I had thought about getting it pleated to the gold stripe and even asked them to do it after I had placed the initial order but they ignored/ did not get/ overrule me and I have loved it pleated to the sett. I am guessing that Nighthawk loves it to as he has ordered one ith:

    Isn't that one of the photos that I took? Yeah, I decided that I like it that way. I didn't realize that was how yours was pleated, but I do like it.
    "Two things are infinite- the universe, and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." Albert Einstein.

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