Finding tartans by colour

[Nick Fiddes]

I did post this earlier to our 'kiltstore' section below. But with it's not been viewed as much as I'd have expected. So with the moderators' indulgence, I'm reposting it here, as I do believe it should be of widespread interest and value to the kilts & tartans community... :-)

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We've just put online the next stage in the evolution of our tartan finder:
http://www.scotweb.co.uk/materialfinder.html

Any comments, complaints, other forms of criticism etc. from this expert bunch of enthusiasts would be much appreciated!

We believe it's the only facility in the world that lets you search for tartans including particular colours and then see woven fabrics in your choices - using the official Scottish Tartans Authority tartan definitions! PLEASE NOTE: only about 1/3 of our tartans are 'unified' in this way at the moment, so for most you'll only see our woven-to-order options meanwhile. But the rest should be fixed in the next few weeks.

Also, the interface is a tad more funky in Firefox, due to Internet Explorer limitations. But it should be fully functional in any browser, and if not we'd really like to hear about it...

Thank all!

Nick

[Mr. MacDougall]

It's interesting... what would be useful is to have a limiter, so when you say, "search for tartans with green and purple," you could also say, "search for tartans with only these colors."

[Nick Fiddes]

Hmmm... interesting idea Mr MacDougall. I'll discuss it with the techs next week.

[pdcorlis]

Actually this is very cool - I agree that having the ability to define combinations (this and this or this but not this) could really help. It would also be nice to add "modern" "weathered" and "ancient" as further selection filters.

[SFCRick]

This is very nice, thanks Nick

[James MacMillan]

I like it! I like it a lot!!!



Thanks

[ANGELMAN]

Great Idea. Being New To The Kilted Community I Look Forward To Playing With This In The Near Future. I Agree That The Above Mentioned Additions Would Be Helpfull.

[Ancienne Alliance]

Very usefull . Thank You.
It did help me.
Mr. MacDougall's idea is excellent.

[Nick Fiddes]

You asked... we listened! Our wonderful techs have just spent another hefty chunk of grey matter on enabling our tartan finder's colour search to omit colours, and/or to limit to colours listed, as requested. Hey, just think of us as being your own personal programming service! ;-)

http://www.scotweb.co.uk/tartan

[sharpdressedscot]

Cool idea, this'll help alot.