material changes a tartan?

[kev_1270]

That makes some sense with that first example... but when I saw the GREY pattern with heavy green - I was like, HUH?

I understand that dye may hold different on some materials or the weight of fabric, and even a bit different due to the variations of the color. However some of the ones I looked at were completely different color (like the grey/green example).

[Pleater]

Perhaps if there were more women in printing and dyeing it might be a more exact science, but they are both - in my experience - considered 'men's work' here in England and possibly elsewhere in the world. Men are far more prone to have problems differentiating colours.

The inability to differentiate grey and green or brown is a classic one - but the alteration in the thread count and colour order is perhaps due to the mill not having the correct amounts of the colours required to weave the tartan, so maybe they put on a warp and wove with what they had, so as the keep the mill rolling, and named it what was wanted so as to fulfill the orders.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[fluter]

That makes some sense with that first example... but when I saw the GREY pattern with heavy green - I was like, HUH?

Let us not forget: you are looking at a computer screen, not at fabric. So, you've been given good advice: get some fabric to inspect.

The effect you observed on your computer screen may even have to do with the way(s) the samples were scanned for the Web site, and the qualities of the different yarns in some particular kind of light. We don't know, and we can't know. I have certainly seen black fabric that looks green in certain situations (old jackets, for instance).

Variations like this come with the tartan territory! For instance would you say these samples were the same sett? (Click to enlarge.)




In tartan terms, they are the same. Here we have not a composite but a single photo, under "color corrected" lighting, but there may still be variations according to fabric composition (wool, polyester/wool, polyester/rayon, and polyester/unknown). You may take the photographer's word that the effect is similar to visual inspection; but if I were you, I'd order swatches before choosing one of them.

[Smayniac]

The effect you observed on your computer screen may even have to do with the way(s) the samples were scanned for the Web site, and the qualities of the different yarns in some particular kind of light. We don't know, and we can't know. I have certainly seen black fabric that looks green in certain situations (old jackets, for instance).

Scooby's mom used to make formal wear for an opera company. She discovered that in the early twentieth century, with the introduction of incandescent light, many makers went to midnight blue for formal jackets because it still appeared black under artificial lighting conditions.

Bob