I am wondering if the MacDonald of Prince Edward Island tartan is "too busy" . And should I have a kilt made in this tartan , what difficulties will a kiltmaker have in working with this particular tartan? Any thoughts?
No way my friend, it's an amazing sett! I love the complexities and the colorings-go for it!!!
I think it looks busy here because of the bright acidic colours of this computer-generated graphic. The blue and green and red are all equally "saturated" and assault the eye.
I think it could certainly be woven in colours so as to produce a lovely effect.
For example, imagine the blue being darker and the green being a bit lighter.
Here's the so-called Black Watch tartan, likewise with a blue/green ground, but woven with the green considerably lighter than the blue, so that they blue and green aren't fighting equally for our eye's attention:
If you did that, and also chose just the right red/claret, you would have a lovely tartan that wouldn't look "busy".
Most tartan is "busy" by most people's definition. If you like tartan, this is a handsome one I think. Particularly if you like MacDonald, Cameron of Erracht, and other such tartans with the multiple red stripes. I would recommend a pleat to stripe--but I always recommend that as I think it simply looks much better. Which stripe you pleat to depends upon what you think looks best. You can work with your kilt maker on it or just trust your kilt maker if you know them (I just trusted mine and was glad for it.)
EXAMPLE: "Ogilvie of Airlie" is a rather "busy" tartan I suppose, yet it is still a very unique and handsome sett.
My eyes, OMG, my my eyes!! It is not bad at all. I would call the "Loud McLeod" busy. I would get the kilt pleated to the stripe, but not sure which stripe. The tartan is certainly an attention getter.
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