More messing about with tartan designs

[David]

I'm quite enjoying this . Possibly a bit too much blue for a hunting tartan, I like it though

[Cygnus]

All I'm seeing is a blank white square... if that's your tartan, I'd say it is too much for a hunting tartan.

If not, consider this one I designed as a joke:


I named it "United States Hunting" - done in the brightest orange I could find to honor traditional American hunting gear and almost certainly more garish than something with too much blue.

I am also under the impression that many Lowland hunting tartans have significantly more blue - in fact, my understanding is that the Ramsay Blue tartan was originally adopted as a hunting tartan.

[cmcbeth]

Love the blaze orange approach (both as humor and for real). Thx!

[AJBryant]

I named it "United States Hunting" - done in the brightest orange I could find to honor traditional American hunting gear and almost certainly more garish than something with too much blue.

Now that's funny. And brilliant.

[knotty]

"North American Hunting" might be a better name. There are plenty in Canada also who wear blaze orange all fall.

All I'm seeing is a blank white square... if that's your tartan, I'd say it is too much for a hunting tartan.

If not, consider this one I designed as a joke:


I named it "United States Hunting" - done in the brightest orange I could find to honor traditional American hunting gear and almost certainly more garish than something with too much blue.

I am also under the impression that many Lowland hunting tartans have significantly more blue - in fact, my understanding is that the Ramsay Blue tartan was originally adopted as a hunting tartan.

[Cygnus]

"North American Hunting" might be a better name. There are plenty in Canada also who wear blaze orange all fall.

True enough, but the sett is very much based on the United States tartan (complete with red, white, and blue lines/stripes).

I also feel bad for hijacking this thread with what I intended to be a small bit of humor. I do hope that David, the OP, can forgive me. I do hope the issues preventing us from seeing his design are sorted out soon so that we can go back to discussing his design. I posted my design in another thread if folks want to continue the discussion there.

[azwildcat96]

All I see in the OP is white too...maybe it is snow camo for winter hunting.

[David]

Sorted it now, and now i have had a better look at it, there is not too much blue in it.

Whats the joke with orange and hunting in the US?

[David]

Is stealth not needed then? Can you not get day glo tweeds and plusfours over there

[OC Richard]

BTW both those designs depart somewhat from the common traditional proportional relationship, that is, most traditional tartans can be thought of as having two main sections, one section more or less an open ground, the other section contrasting in level of complexity or colour or both. The proportion between these two can be 1:1 or be in the neighborhood of 5:3.

If the ground area becomes too small the tartan can have a congested appearance, if the ground area becomes too large the tartan can appear dissipated or diffuse. It's something to experiment with when you're designing a tartan and if you have an "eye" for proportion you'll hit upon the ratio which makes the tartan look happily balanced.

Early tartans tended to be more open (as in the orange tartan above) while modern tartans tend to be more congested (as in the green tartan above).

Were I designing the tartans above, I would expand the ground of the green tartan until there was more or less a 1:1 ratio, and I would decrease the ground of the orange tartan until it approached 5:3. I'm quite sure that both would look more satisfying to the eye then.