tartan ID please

[OC Richard]

Usually I'm pretty good at figuring out tartans but this one, which I know I've seen before, has me stumped.

It was beautiful in person, such nice colours.

[figheadair]

It's a new one to me too. The material looks to be of a good quality so I gess it's a new design for someone or something rather than a cheap fashion type sett. There are shades of Stephenson about it. Yet another one to record!

[OC Richard]

It was a new kilt for sale at the Games, no label as to tartan.

The fabric was high quality 16oz tartan, the colours rich and lovely, the kilt was a heavy handsewn one.

The shop had an interesting mix of Pakistani tat and high quality Scottish-made items, for example a rack of tweed kilt jackets for $150, some Scottish-made of nice heavy tweed, some decidedly suspicious both in tailoring and tweed.

About that tartan, I have a nagging feeling I've seen it. I just can't place it.

[davidlpope]

It's the Stirling and Bannockburn tartan design, but the colors have been replaced, e.g. Light blue for red, red for black, etc.

Compare to this:

[davidlpope]

It is the County Leitrim tartan from HOE's Irish County tartan range:


So if I take a Scottish tartan and change the colors or add a line, it's Irish?...

Maclean of Duart:


Tara:




MacBeth:


Clodagh:

[figheadair]

Well found, County Leitim it is but in Old Colours as opposed to HoE's originals shades.



The STA's record was incorrect which is why it was not coming up on a search.

[OC Richard]

When I was looking through loads of tartans to try to match it I saw Leitrim but passed over it because all the Leitrims I saw had two shades of brown, and orange stripes.

I kept looking, and it didn't dawn on me that it was the same tartan with different colours.

I don't like the brown & orange Leitrim at all. The tartan I saw was lovely. It goes to show how fairly subtle colour-shifts can make or break a tartan (from the standpoint of aesthetics).

The fabric I saw had a soft olive as one of the two main ground colours, not taupe as appears in the sample in the post above.

I went through the same thing with the HOE County Cavan tartan. I saw a kilt which was beautiful, but subsequently all the kilts, samples, ties, etc I saw in that tartan weren't as nice.

County Cavan with a lovely muted appearance. The first kilt I saw in that tartan looked like this.



Here too.



But I've also seen it with decidedly orange stripes, which I don't care for.

This thing happens with House Of Edgar: note the numerous subtle colour-shifts between their 13oz and 16oz Drummond Of Perth Muted.

[OC Richard]

It's the Stirling and Bannockburn tartan design, but the colors have been replaced, e.g. Light blue for red, red for black, etc.

Good eye!!

That hadn't dawned on me, but that's what it is, Stirling And Bannockburn Weathered, sort of.