Scotweb now carries Dutch Friendship Tartan!

[Canuck]

Well that's disappointing. I just went to the website and discovered four variations of the tartan. Not impressed!! The closest one to colour is the "Weavers Choice" Glad I have the original.

[Nick Fiddes]

I'm not exactly sure what you're unimpressed by, Canuck, but if the shades are wrong that's easy to fix! For tartan patterns that we've not woven since our online systems were developed, we usually display four variants, all of which are automagically produced by our computers.

"Weavers' Colours" are the closest match to the (usually quite vague) shades recorded in the Scottish Tartans Register. Modern, Ancient, and Reproduction palettes are created to default formulae to give a flavour of the different treatments. We always review these with an expert human eye anyway before weaving any, but if there's more established colours already known we'll employ these instead. Hope this helps.

Nick

[Canuck]

Maybe I should have articulated a disappointment on the variants that left me unimpressed with the outcome with this particular tartan. No doubt the computer program with the algorithms that can translate modern colours to that of reproduction and ancient is impressive. Granted. You also qualified it by saying the human eye will intervene.
In this case the original colours in the tartan are somewhat muted, subtle versions of "Oranje", Heather, and Thistle. In the process of projecting what the tartan may look like if weathered, has, in my mind and opinion, gone too far. Having said that, who's to say that in fact it is more appealing to someone else.
The tartan has a link to the Scot's, in relation to their part in the liberation of Holland during the second world war.
In it's original form, for those in the know, it is the only version it needs to be, the ancient and reproduction variants become meaningless to the original concept of the tartan in my opinion.