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    Vestiarium Scoticum text available online?

    Is the text of this noble work (of fiction) available online?

    The STA has a small quote from the VS in their description of the Crawford tartan STA-1515, regarding two colours of green:

    "The Vestiarium Scoticum describes the green next to the crimson line as being the colour of a ‘tender ash tree, with the rest of the green being ‘grass-green’ Also appears in the 1880 Clans Originaux.
    The VS red is bright red."

    I'm interested whether I'm close with a version I'm working on to visualize it:


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    We don't have the text of the VS online (one day hopefully), but we do have the book here at the museum, so if anyone needs something from it verified just let us know.

    We DO have all the tartan images from the VS online, here:
    http://resources.scottishtartans.org...m_gallery.html

    Here is how Crawford is illustrated.
    Matthew A. C. Newsome, GTS
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    Thanks very much Matt.

    Also someone did a nice job in the Wikipedia article on the Vestiarium Scoticum, showing thumbnails and estimated thread-counts for both the tartans as they were described and images of the Plates (and where the two disagree.)

    I guess what got my curiosity going was the two different greens mentioned in the description on the Crawford STA page, and how the text used to create the tartan for the VS was misapplied, (as it seems it was in a handful of the tartans including the Crawford.) And possibly whether there was more than one error of interpretation.

    So I think what I'm asking is, is there any way to see the just the Crawford tartan V.S. text description (or transcription thereof) without causing anyone (Matt) a lot of work or inconvenience?

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