Glamis Castle Prince Charles Edward Stuart tartan

[OC Richard]

Peter's fascinating article on the large piece of 18th century tartan in the sett now called Prince Charles Edward Stuart on display at Glamis Castle

https://www.scottishtartans.co.uk/Po...hEd_tartan.pdf

sent me down the rabbit-hole of trying to replicate this tartan in the Gaelic Web's online tartan generator.

Here's the original in the best online photos I could find, top how it's displayed at Glamis Castle (with TWO signs, and a sword, piled on top) and bottom its appearance at the V&A Dundee exhibit.



Here, stood on end, are those two photos with my CGI image in between. It took a bit of adjusting but I think I've got the sett pretty close.

The original fabric's sett-size is around 8.5 inches.

[figheadair]

A good approximation Richard.

[OC Richard]

Thanks! It took several iterations and comparing each one to the photos to arrive at what I think is as close as I'm going to get.

Because if I change anything it throws something else off.

Next is playing around with "custom colours" or whatever they call it to try to get that specific green. The original appears to have a bit more olive than Gaelic Web's stock "flax green".

I will say that I think I prefer some of the 1819 KPB proportions especially when the black stripes which border the azure are a tad wider.

Those narrower black stripes make the sett feel a bit underpowered. Maybe I'll play with that.

[OC Richard]

Prince Charles Edward Stuart trews, West Highland Museum.

I thought I would come up with an approximation of this tartan as well.

It's impossible to know how close I've come because of the distortion in the photos. When my thread count is a 100% match compared to one portion of the trews, it's noticeably off compared to another portion of the trews. So I went with something that's at least around a 90% match everywhere.

Though superficially it resembles the Glamis fabric almost every proportion is different.

[OC Richard]

I tried to match colours. I only found two photos of the West Highland Museum trews, the colours are quite different, so I split the difference.

Here's my estimate of the Glamis Castle piece compared to my estimate of the WHM trews.

As we see the red/azure/black portion of the tartan is reduced with the WHM trews, and overall it's a bolder pattern, the Glamis fabric being more attenuated.