Knotty - MacLean Grey?

[knotty]

Very attractive. I would wear it no problem.

Sanx, that makes me feel better.
How do you feel about the balance of the brown/grey? To my eye the brown needs to be a bit darker.

[Piipriker]

Sanx, that makes me feel better.
How do you feel about the balance of the brown/grey? To my eye the brown needs to be a bit darker.

For me it looks well balanced, the brown and gray compliment each other very nicely.

[knotty]

I have changed the colors very slightly by switching to "weavers colors".

I have also created a new tartan I call MacLean of Duart (grey & brown) muted. The white, yellow & blue are not as bright.
http://www.scotweb.co.uk/tartandesign/details/47683

[davidlpope]

Have you looked at the Tara/Murphy tartan? It's the same concept: start with the Maclean of Duart tartan and fiddle with the colors...

http://www.dcdalgliesh.co.uk/tartan_found.rpy?id=107419

[SlackerDrummer]

The problem I have is the mixing of colors from the various pallets. Why not start with Maclean Hunting. Change the green to peat brown, the black to charcoal gray and the white to morning gray. Then you'd have the pallet you want (weathered Black Watch) with minimal corruption of the original tartan.

[knotty]

Thats another idea too.
Im not sure "corruption" is the word I would use.

The problem I have is the mixing of colors from the various pallets. Why not start with Maclean Hunting. Change the green to peat brown, the black to charcoal gray and the white to morning gray. Then you'd have the pallet you want (weathered Black Watch) with minimal corruption of the original tartan.

[madmacs]

The problem I have is the mixing of colors from the various pallets. Why not start with Maclean Hunting. Change the green to peat brown, the black to charcoal gray and the white to morning gray. Then you'd have the pallet you want (weathered Black Watch) with minimal corruption of the original tartan.

Sounds like weathered maclean hunting which locharron used to make...

[SlackerDrummer]

Sounds like weathered maclean hunting which locharron used to make...

Sounds like it, but it's not. In a true "weathered" or "reproduction" pallet from most mills, black stays black. I'm advocating bringing the black somewhere between black and the gray that blue becomes in this pallet typically.

Lochcarron's weathered Maclean Hunting:

source

[knotty]

Yes I have. There must be some connection...

Have you looked at the Tara/Murphy tartan? It's the same concept: start with the Maclean of Duart tartan and fiddle with the colors...

http://www.dcdalgliesh.co.uk/tartan_found.rpy?id=107419

[madmacs]

I have changed the colors very slightly by switching to "weavers colors".

I have also created a new tartan I call MacLean of Duart (grey & brown) muted. The white, yellow & blue are not as bright.
http://www.scotweb.co.uk/tartandesign/details/47683

much nicer