Blue or Purple?

[Paul Henry]

I'm not interested in the tartan, though I love the look. I'm just not sure which look. ;-)

I simply find it curious, even odd, that two of the premier tartan organizations in the world show the same tartan so differently - apparently beyond any difference one would expect from the imprecision of a digital rendering.

In one, the brightest color in the tartan (Oxford) displays as blue, in the other the same color (Oxford) is shown as purple. Is it (as I infer from paulhenry's comments) that there is no accepted standard (via an RGB mix, for example) for the color Oxford? Or, did one of the orgs. simply make a mistake in its display?

Can anyone out there speak for the House of Edgar from where this tartan allegedly originated? Where is Claire Donaldson when you need her?! :-)

You are correct, there is NO accepted colour standard, there never has been, and I suspect there never really could be, and I for one wouldn't really want one, as it allows the customer a greater choice( even if sometimes it seems frustrating).
I don't see that there is a mistake in either of the pictures, it's simply the way it is, which is why I put both the pictures of the Maclean of Duart up for you, the one with the light blue is Lochcarron, the one with the stronger brighter blue is Marton Mills. Neither of the weavers have made a mistake in the colouring (via the thread count) they simply have chosen different blues.

If a tartan had been ordered some years ago, the same tartan from the same weaver ordered today wouldn't necceasrily be identical either, allowing for different dye lots , different conditions in the weaving, difference in the wool, would allow contribute to subtle variations,