Ken: Thanks for your comments and for posting the pictures. The point about different shades of the same color that both you and paulhenry make is well taken.

The problem here seems to be that we have two distinct colors - blue and purple, not shades of either. Even the least expensive monitors will display completely different colors so that they can be distinguished.

I can't help but believe that there was some mistake made, either by the STA or the SRT, along the path to rendering this particular tartan. That's why I made my comments about the House of Edgar and Ms. Donaldson.

It would simplify matters greatly (for me anyway), if someone who has first-hand knowledge about this tartan wrote in and said something like, "It is blue." or "It is purple." or "In real life it is neither, but it looks just like ...". It would be icing on the cake if they could also authoritatively explain why the two pictures look different, but for some of the reasons you mention, that may be too much to ask. Cheers. :-)