exotic sock colour-names

[room2ndfloor]

[QUOTE=MacCathmhaoil;1328257
I will use them but the search continues for both a navy and bright yellow pair.[/QUOTE]

I am curious. With what tartan would you wear bright yellow hose? I have been thinking of dyeing some my wool an old gold to go with Buchanan ancient.

[The Q]

I am curious. With what tartan would you wear bright yellow hose? I have been thinking of dyeing some my wool an old gold to go with Buchanan ancient.

Loud Macloud http://clan-macleod-scotland.org.uk/tartans ?

[The Q]

yellow socks even if the top line says olive green
https://www.amazon.co.uk/TRADITIONAL...g+breeks+socks

[MacCathmhaoil]

They were garter ties rather than hose!

[tundramanq]

Designer named colors are more noisome here in our world of tartan where the registry defines them with standard primary and secondary color terms.
I dye my hose to work a certain tartans color using Dylon dye. They tend to try and at least keep the names straight forward descriptive for most - Like Pewter Grey. Some exceptions are Pebble Beige and Amazon Green - doesn't conjure up the actual colors for me.

This has been going on with hose for a long time. Bottle Green for example.

Tartans, being born of designers, eventually led the clans to create the registry to uniquely define their tartans and stop the designer changes to the run colors over time from still being called the XYZ clan tartan.

[JasonMc]

Tartans, being born of designers, eventually led the clans to create the registry to uniquely define their tartans and stop the designer changes to the run colors over time from still being called the XYZ clan tartan.

Then there's the variety of 'ancient' colors, which evidently means washed-out to most manufactures, with the 'Lovat' blue and green meaning the same thing(?). I've read about the changes for the ancient colors, but haven't seen what sparked the 'Lovat' moniker for hose and flashes.

[The Q]

Oh garter ties, find your nearest home weaving group, then find someone with an inkle loom, supply yellow yarn and wait.

Or get the plans for an inkle loom off of the net, make one, then weave your own ties.

In my case SWMBO has commissioned me to make her an inkle loom.

[tundramanq]

Thanks Webster dictionary,

Definition of lovat : a predominantly dusty color mixture (as of green) in fabrics

Origin and Etymology of lovat :
probably from T. A. Fraser, Lord Lovat †1875 Scottish nobleman who popularized muted tweeds
First Known Use: 1907

Full Definition of bottle green : a dark green

First Known Use of bottle green :1795

Even the dictionary definitions are dodgy.

[ForresterModern]

My favorite color description of all time actually conjures up a rather appropriate expectation of the actual color:

Bison.

Yep that is what they look like.

[Jock Scot]

I am curious. With what tartan would you wear bright yellow hose? I have been thinking of dyeing some my wool an old gold to go with Buchanan ancient.

Yellow, or in UK fox hunting(horses and hounds) terms " Lemon", goes with my tartan pretty well I think.



I have no artistic ability or training in colour choices, but I do have a decade or seven of experience of watching what goes with what and only having one tartan, MacLeod of Harris, does make hose "choice" simpler---------well actually, just grabbing the first pair of hose that comes to hand as the assorted colours in the drawer all work.