Purple Tartans?

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Marton Mills has a wool version of their polyviscose Warrior tartan. It's called Highland Mist, in the 16-ounce Jura range of tartans. You can find it from MM, clan.com, or your favorite kiltmaker.

Warrior's colors are purple, dark purple (almost black), and white. As far as my eye can tell from the screen, Highland Mist is identical.

Update on Highland Mist. I have the actual fabric in my hands. It was expected about a month ago, but given the vagaries of domestic and world-wide shipping right now, I'm just glad to have it!

Here's a photo, but my digital camera seems to show it about 2 shades more blue than my eye. The Marton Mills Jura "Highland mist" is at top, the MM Balmoral (PV) Warrior below, in the form of a USA Kilts casual model.

I was interested to see that the wool has a smaller sett size than the PV. The wool is about 11.5 cm (4.5 inches) as advertised. The PV is about 14 cm.

For comparison, on the left are 4 shades of purple: kilt hose in purple and "thistle" from House of Cheviot; a tie, and some acrylic yarn that may one day be a scarf. On the right, the MM Jura MacGregor of Cardney (a work in progress)---not purple, but maroon and dark green. Its sett size is 14x15 cm, a bit more difference in warp and weft than the others.

MMmist-warrior by Ken, on Flickr