Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Withnell View Post
As promised, Barb's box pleat and the Stillwater heavyweight:



Based on both the color and red stripe widths, I believe Barb used the Strathmore. I haven't done a count, but the Stillwater has equal width red stripes, but the blue and green stripes seem smaller, an=s the squares bordered by the gold stripes seem somewhat smaller relative to the gold stripes.
Not sure, but it looks like Barb used Dalgliesh fabric to me.

As far as I know there are six mills that have woven this tartan:

Strathmore
Dalgliesh
Lochcarron
Robert Noble
Whoever weaves for Stillwater
Whoever weaves for Sportkilt

I've always taken the stance that minor variations in thread count or colors don't create a different tartan. I think that the STA is right. These are the same tartan. I wish they hadn't registered them separately under different names.

See these threads for related discussion:

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...0/#post1033301
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...s-album-68835/