Resource for Tartan Pantone Colors

[tyger]

Unfortunately, there is no quick fix here, as I have found out over time, and most recently in my persuit of County Galway tartan. The ONLY way to know the true colors is to get a swatch of fabric from the mill that will weave your tartan.

Yep, even in fly tying there is a color system that tells one what color of green to use as hackle, but in tartans.......we will have to wait.

That is why on a previous post I queried, then suggested, a simple automated way of seeing a tartan pleated to sett, and to stripe. Very simple, yet not available right now.

Steve, you are a computer guru......this could be your calling!

[The Wizard of BC]

to give you an example of the problem facing you with trying to match colors of Tartan here are two examples of the exact same Tartan woven by two different weaving mills.



this is the USMC Leatherneck Tartan.
The upper sample was woven by D.C. Dalgleish.
the lower sample was woven by Strathmore.






And these are two samples of the Victoria, City of Gardens Tartan that I designed for my adopted city.

The top was woven by D.C. Dalgleish.
The lower was woven by Marton Mills.

And here is the official Scottish Tartans Authority image for the same tartan.




And don't even get me started on the X Marks Tartan.

[blackbeard]

That is why on a previous post I queried, then suggested, a simple automated way of seeing a tartan pleated to sett, and to stripe. Very simple, yet not available right now.

Unfortunately that doesn't work.

I did just that with my clan tartan. I made a computer sample of the tartan pleated to the stripe and thought “Well that looks pretty good.” When I actually purchased the cloth and sample pinned it, I realized that the black stripe that I was planning on using when woven with the green of the under check turned dark grayish green and when viewed from 10 feet away it disappeared into the background. I ended up pleating it to the sett.

You just have to bite the bullet and order a swatch.

[tyger]

Unfortunately that doesn't work.

Oh yes it dies (would)! You simply need to know how to tell the computer to do what you want it to do.

I have instructed computers to write what I speak, and see and measure and compute things that I see, so these color and pleat tasks really would be child's play, for one who would commit the time and resources to actually doing it.