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10th January 10, 07:37 AM
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book: World Tartans by Iain Zaczek
Anyone else have this book? It was published by Barnes & Noble in 2001.
It's nice in many ways: it has many newer tartans, Irish tartans, and institutional/personal/etc tartans that aren't in the older traditional tartans books.
The illustrations, which seem to be computer-generated, have nice bright lively colouring.
Sometimes too colourful! The Meath tartan as it appears in the book has lovely strong hues but actual Meath tartan fabric I've seen is considerably duller. Many of the colours, in fact, don't seem to match any of the available colourings I've seen from various mills.
There are a couple interesting tartans in the book I've not seen elsewhere, the United States (designed by Malcolm Campbell) and the Victoria (Australia) (designed by Betty Johnston). I googled both and didn't find anyone selling these tartans.
There are a couple errors: the Caledonia tartan illustrated is not correct, and both St Columba and the Virginia Military Institute are shown as the same tartan.
One thing that's a bit off-putting is the vastly different sett sizes different tartans are shown in, which in some cases makes two similar tartans look far more different than they are. Some degree of consistency would have been nice.
All in all a very handy book to have!
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