Grey & Claret tartans?

**OC Richard** · 27th May 12, 05:30 AM

I have a regular piping gig with a college the colours of which are a light grey and a deep claret/Burgundy, or maroon as some would call it.

I did a Google search using all those words and didn't come up with all that much... a kilt in those colours would be a great thing to have.

There's Hebridean Heather (AKA Balmoral Claret) which has the right colours, though it's mostly grey with only a touch of claret.

There's Grey Stuart which seems to have several variants. I did see one variant where the red is an acceptable claret hue, though in most it's a pure red.

Then there are several tartans which sort of look grey/claret in Dalgliesh's "reproduction" range, especially MacLachlan and MacLean of Duart. Trouble is, that reproduction red isn't really claret, and the grey really isn't a clear pure grey.

Anything I'm missing? Have you seen any good grey & claret tartans? Photos of actual kilts in such tartans would be very helpful.

Thanks!

**McElmurry** · 27th May 12, 07:27 AM

The HOE muted line uses claret. Unfortunately, the computer generated images of some of their muted tartans are not very accurate. Morrison red muted is claret and dark olive but it looks wine and celery on the HOE website. Anyway, you might check out the HOE medium weight muted tartans.

http://www.houseofedgar.com/acatalog...t_Tartans.html

**tundramanq** · 27th May 12, 07:30 AM

OC, I love the idea Just ordered a Sterling grey from Rocky but it's all greys with white stripe.

I have a pair of Texas A&M shorts in maroon and light grey ??? Maybe some Scot down there ?

**McElmurry** · 27th May 12, 07:34 AM

And another thing

Tartan Ferret has a color search function.

http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret

**brewerpaul** · 27th May 12, 08:50 AM

That would be a very nice colour combination. Ive got the Hamilton Grey kilt from Heritage of Scotland and some wonderful burgundy kilt hose from Wbrewin that I wear together quite often. To have some of the burgundy in the kilt would be fantastic.

The Scottish Register of Tartans has a fairly advanced colour search where you can specify only certain colours. It filters out others quite well. I may be making a statement of the obvious here because you may already know about this search on SRT

If this image shows up this is one called Brook(check) a bit busy but I kinda like it.

**Cygnus** · 27th May 12, 09:34 AM

The Salt Lake Scots pipe band wears a rather striking tartan that seems to meet your criteria:

**Zardoz** · 27th May 12, 05:21 PM

Auld Lang Syne Grey comes to mind; http://buyakilt.com/tartan/view/index/swatch/15068

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 28th May 12, 04:15 AM

There is the Portree tartan, which is woven by Strathmore in 11 oz.

You could possibly get it woven in a heavier weight if needed. I'd have to check with Strathmore, I think this is one of their proprietary designs and so they'd have teh copyright.

**madmacs** · 29th May 12, 09:49 AM

Macpherson Hunting?

**OC Richard** · 1st June 12, 08:48 AM

Thanks guys! Great suggestions! Portree looks great.

Yes indeed the bespoke tartan of the Salt Lake Scots Pipe Band would be perfect. Here's a closeup of it being worn, by the Drum Major on the right

Over the weekend I was able to examine (and try on!) a kilt in Hebridean Heather tartan. It's lovely, just not much claret in it! Mostly grey.