I'm not sure why this idea came to mind. It came, out of the blue, the other day, and I was compelled to try to

The Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal has, to my eye, a particularly unattractive ribbon. There is no reason whatsoever to suspect it would form the basisof an attractive tartan. It looks like this:


Nevertheless, I thought I would see what it looked like. I replicated the ribbon's pattern on a dark blue field because all of the US forces use blue as the basis of the dress uniform.

Here is the result:




What do you think? Is this an attractive sett? If so, why? (Why not?)

I'd be grateful to any moderator for correcting my typo in the subject line!