Scotweb very disappointing

[davidlpope]

Hi Steve,

How about this Tartan, a perfect match found on the DC Dalgliesh's website. You must have missed this one, McIntyre Old Hunting Ancient.

Pardon my bluntness, but here's the deal: You just don't know enough about what you're wanting to get what you want.

There are five major tartan mills which produce stock tartan fabric for kilts: Lochcarron, House of Edgar, Strathmore, Marton Mills, and Dalgliesh. Yes, there are other mills which produce tartan, but most of the kilts that one sees are made of fabric from one of those mills.

If you are dead set on getting tartan items that match your current kilt (not a concern of most Highlanders in Scotland), you need to be able to specify which mill wove the fabric and which weight the fabric is in. Color scheme (ancient, modern, muted, weathered, reproduction) is pretty obvious by looking at the tartan IF one is experienced in dealing with tartan from these mills. Specifying tartan name, mill, fabric weight, and color scheme will then make sure that you're getting exactly what you want.

From the looks of it, I'd guess your kilt is from Lochcarron fabric, probably 13oz., in the "Ancient" color scheme. The tie and flashes are made by House of Edgar in their "Old Colours". Most of their tartan is 13oz., so that's what I'd guess as to weight. Lochcarron makes ties in 11oz fabric that will be a closer match to your kilt, but not perfect, as the shades used in those two weights of fabric are slightly different. Ditch the digital tartan finder programs. Order swatches from different mills if you need to, to get what you want.

Or, ditch the idea of a tartan tie and tartan flashes. They're really not the thing, anyway...

[tpa]

Or, ditch the idea of a tartan tie and tartan flashes. They're really not the thing, anyway...

Precisely and think of the time and angst it will save.

[tripleblessed]

Precisely and think of the time and angst it will save.

And think of the time and angst saved by arriving here, leveraging the combined experience and knowledge.
Which is one of the things I have most enjoyed here. Folk who know me in person think of me as someone
with a fairly large storehouse of (mostly useless) knowledge. I think of me as needing to know much more
about nearly everything, as who among us knows enough about much of anything? We know some about much,
and we function at a level of competence that mostly works. But most of the exceptional folk I've been
blessed to know have felt that the more they learned about most subjects just revealed how much more
there was to learn than they had ever realized existed.

So, welcome, Botriphnie. Jump in head first and enjoy a deep and broad pool of stuff collected by a bunch
of good folk always ready to throw together some assistance.

[MacRob46]

If I may interject something here...our household is full of Modern, Muted and Weathered Gunn tartan, mostly modern. In the case of the Modern we have ties, an adult male kilt, some childrens' kilts made by my wife for our son, a couple of sashes and a lot of scrap. We even have a table cloth. The Weathered and Muted Gunn came from one mill and are in one weight and each are in a single garment, and there is nothing to compare them to except when we attend Scottish-American functions. At any rate, in the Modern it appears that no two garments are the same, i.e. the hues are different in all the tartan. When the Weathered goes out socializing, then I usually notice differences between it and other Weathered Gunn. Since there is only one mill weaving one weight of the Muted, the very few Muted Gunn kilts I see are identical or nearly so to mine. Different dye lots will produce slight differences in hue, as previously stated.

The best thing for you to do is just enjoy your kilt and accessories and not worry about. Most everyone is going to have the same situation you do.