"Weathered MacWerner"

[sydnie7]

Made my first kilt from this lovely fabric, purchased on eBay as "100% wool plaid." Has a perfect kilt selvedge. At 07 Queen Mary Games, it was compared to contents of the 3 swatch books that Blandford had on hand, with no match -- but Mr. B pronounced it "weathered" which suits the wearer just fine

Colors are fairly true on my monitor although the green is a just tad richer, a nice mossy color.

Any ideas? May I continue calling it "Weathered MacWerner" without stepping on any GB toes?

Thanks for your expertise!

[Morris at Heathfield]

I doesn't appear to be symmetrical. I only see the wide blue stripe running in one dimension. In the other dimension the same stripe is black. To me that suggests it's probably just a fashion tartan, and not likely one that has been registered with either the Scottish Tartans Authority or the Scottish Tartan World Register.

There are also asymmetric Welsh tartans, but yours doesn't appear in the Wales Tartan Centre's list of tartans.

[Ryan Ross]

I agree that, unless the camera has been at some skulduggery with the coloration, it does not look to have the same warp and weft.

[sydnie7]

"Learning something every day"

Didn't know that about symmetricity. . . symmetricalness. . . symmetricality. . . whatever!

Evidently Mr. Blandford didn't twig to that either although he did suggest it might be Irish.

The wearer and I are both happy to call it WMacW.

[Morris at Heathfield]

Didn't know that about symmetricity. . . symmetricalness. . . symmetricality. . . whatever!

I should have added that my opinion is hardly authoritative—especially when I mix up my tartan terminology!

An asymmetrical tartan is one where the pattern does not reverse, but only repeats itself. The most commonly seen Buchanan tartan is an example of this. There are a number of registered tartans that are asymmetrical.

What I should have said is that your tartan (like the Wales Tartan Centre's tartans) is not identical in the warp and weft. I'm not sure if there's a more succinct term for this, but "asymmetrical" is not it.

[Rex_Tremende]

"Learning something every day"

Didn't know that about symmetricity. . . symmetricalness. . . symmetricality. . . whatever!

Evidently Mr. Blandford didn't twig to that either although he did suggest it might be Irish.

The wearer and I are both happy to call it WMacW.

It's kind of interesting that even pleated to the sett as you have it here, it still comes out resembling peating to the stripe because of the strong horizontals.



Well, on second look, it seems you pleated it to the semi-stripe after all, since I see green and black vertical stripes but not any yellow ones. Either way it still remains a striking first opus.

Regards,
Rex.

p.s. was symmetry the word you were looking for?

[sydnie7]

Thank you for that "striking" observation. I deliberately hid the yellow stripes as they are my least favorite color in the weave. I was attempting to pleat to the sett but didn't have enough fabric to really do it, had to cheat some. To paraphrase a comment from Barb T in another thread, I'm glad I worked with (reasonably) quality fabric on my first try -- made the time investment worthwhile.