Originally Posted by
Patty Logan
I don't know where I read it but it said that the Tyneside tartan was just a recreation of a Black Watch tartan kilt found in a bog after years of being submerged.
About what being in a bog would do to Black Watch who can say, but this kilt does show what colour-changes can happen to a Black Watch based tartan above ground.
Indeed the black has turned pale khaki drab while the blue and the green have retained their colours.
(The tartan is MacKenzie Seaforth, which is Black Watch with the addition of white and red lines.)
Last edited by OC Richard; 14th May 23 at 04:38 PM.
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