Quote Originally Posted by auld argonian View Post
For our iPad and iPhone (and the Android people, too), is there an app for that?AA
I'm not an apps expert but I very much doubt that that will ever happen. A case of too little interest for the work/cost involved. But I may be wrong.

Quote Originally Posted by M. A. C. Newsome View Post
As for the 1819 Key Pattern Book from Wilson's this was not ever a published book, as we think of it. Peter MacDonald's book about the 1819 KPB is very interesting and a must have for tartan enthusiasts, and while it does have some illustrations, most tartans are not illustrated. We have been sold out at the STM for a while now, though we do have a copy in our research library, and I have a personal copy at home. I'll let Peter share more about that excellent book.

While it is not the 1819 KPB, we do have photographs of all the tartans included in a sample book from the 1830-40s era that is most likely Wilsons' cloth.
http://resources.scottishtartans.org...e_gallery.html

I have some other photographs of Wilsons tartan from the STA collection which I will one day get around to putting on line, as well.
As Matt says, the 1819 was not a book as such. It was certainly never published and there were no pictures or samples in it. Rather, it was a collection of Wilsons' most common weaving patterns that were combination into an sort of in-house instruction manual with comments on some of the setts. My research lead me to the conclusion that the 1819 KPB was a consolidation of their Pattern Books 1 and 2.

I published counts for the named tartans and other related information in The 1819 Key Pattern Book - One Hundred Original Tartans which is virtually out of print (I think I have half a dozen copies left). The good news is that I'm fairly well through a major re-write that will include corrections, additional research and many more images, particularly of artefacts rather than simply endless computer generated images of tartans. This is now a very much more realistic undertaking because of the advent of Printing on demand. If all goes well it should be ready in the spring.