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19th April 05, 04:23 AM
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A few comments to consider when you are voting:
1. Remember that the colors you see here are computer graphic images being viewed on a monitor. What I'm looking at may be slightly different than what you are looking at, simply because of different settings on our particular screens.
Regardless, when the actual cloth is woven, the woolen mill who does the work is going to have their own particular dye lots. Their shade of dark blue, their shade of azure, their shade of grey, etc., will not necessarily look exactly like this computer generated image. And then, if someone later on decides to get the tartan woven in a poly-viscose, or a cotton, or a silk, etc., those mills will also have their own particular dye lots.
This is all just to say that the colors you are looking at here are to give you a general idea, and you may see some slight variation in hue in the woven cloth.
2. People are commenting on Number 2 being a "dress" tartan. Dress tartans, by definition, have a great amount of white (yes, there are some exceptions to this rule). The light color you see in this tartan is actually grey. Notice there is a white line on the grey. In any case, when it is woven up, it is very likely that the grey will appear somewhat darker than it does in this image, and so the tartan will look less like a "dress" tartan. If I really wanted to make that one a dress tartan, I would probably reverse the white and grey elements in that section -- then it really would look like a dancer's sett.
Aye,
Matt
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