Lots of tartans!

[RockyR]

A busy day in the shop with 3 shipments of cloth. How many tartans can you name in this picture?

[Rich Hoffman]

I don't see any "Young Weathered", so I'm not playin

[Tarheel]

I can name four. Sad, so sad for me. I need to tighten up my skills.

I can envision many happy future kilt owners though.

[GrainReaper]

One.... Being color blind Im rather poor at the "name this tartan game"

[OC Richard]

That's a great pic!

All but a couple look familiar, but I'm not very good with names. (I'm the person that forgets somebody's name nearly as soon as we're introduced.)

I see a few recent inventions on the left side, some Allen Brothers tartans on the right side.

The one in the plastic hard to tell... could be Royal Canadian Air Force, or a recently designed US Navy or Air Force or even Army tartan. There are so many of those I can't keep them straight.

Likewise the burgeoning number of Irish tartans, the HOE ones and County Crest ones and who knows what else. I think I see a couple of those on the left side, and in the back.

I see a couple of the recent Scottish purple "fashion" tartans which, though lovely, have been cheapened by the fact that they're widely woven in acrylic in Pakistan nowadays, so that every other cheap kilt you see is in one of those tartans. Too bad! They're beautiful when properly woven.

I'm stuck by the fact that most of the tartans have a fairly similar sett size. Back in the Highlanders Of Scotland times one saw a vast range of sett sizes being worn in men's kilts, from setts bigger than Army fabric to small setts the size we nowadays would use only for neckties.

[Tartan Tess]

"I'm stuck by the fact that most of the tartans have a fairly similar sett size. Back in the Highlanders Of Scotland times one saw a vast range of sett sizes being worn in men's kilts, from setts bigger than Army fabric to small setts the size we nowadays would use only for neckties".
You hit the nail on the head Richard. Less fabric for more pieces....vests, hats etc.

[RockyR]

In fairness, the cloth in this photo is pretty much all either 13 or 16 oz, designed for making into a kilt. That's probably why the industry as a whole has effectively settled (for lack of a better term) on 6 to 9" sett sizes for the majority of stock supported tartans in 13 to 16 oz.

[Deil the Yin]

Oh! Is that a MacGregor of Cardney (aka hunting) on the far right, four down from top???

[RockyR]

Oh! Is that a MacGregor of Cardney (aka hunting) on the far right, four down from top???

No... that is Forrester

[Mike S]

Looks like Sutherland used in my recent kilt, third down from the top, far right row.