Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
He's just talking about subtle changes in proportion.

Just to see, I generated three different thread-counts of Prince Charles Edward Stuart tartan given in Wilsons 1819 Key Pattern Book, and compared it to an 18th century length of cloth from Glamis Castle (not like California).

While no two are quite the same, yet all can be recognised as the same tartan.

Although I was aware that my dad had a Robertson Red (modern) kilt, and borrowed my sister's kilt version of the "same" tartan during my college years attempting to actually PLAY the pipes, it wasn't until my sister sent me a picture of her, my dad, the clan chieftain, and two other ladies at a clan gathering in Pitlochry they had attended together several years earlier that I had ANY idea that there was more than just ONE variant of Robertson Red, and even when handed several swatch books to study when buying my own first kilt back in 2016 at Wm Glen & Son just off Union Square in SF the nature of or reasons for those differences didn't even register. But by then I knew that the Red (modern) was just TOO MUCH RED for me, so that kilt was Robertson Ancient Hunting.