Tartan Day NYC 2025: Carnegie Hall Event

[OC Richard]

I'm exploring a "Robertson (Struan)" variant that I find much more pleasing than the "stoplight red" most common "Robertson" red. While the pattern is quite different from the 50th Anniversary tattoo tartan, the color palette is similar, and I think MUCH more interesting than the usual Robertson Red:

That's nice! But I always want to see woven cloth if possible. CGI images never seem to do justice to the actual cloth.

I'm not sure which tartan you mean by "the common Robertson red".

The book The Setts of the Scottish Tartans gives four Robertson tartans. Three of the four have significant amounts of red.

One is said to be "in early collections" and is around half red and half blue & green. It has a white line.

Another is from Logan (1831) similar but without the white line.

Then there's the Allen Brothers one, like several of their tartans a simplified version of the one in current use in their time. It has a slightly higher proportion of red.

EDIT: I looked online and I'm seeing mostly the Logan (1831) version of Robertson. The older one, with the white line, is nicer I think, but the Struan one you posted is better yet.