A Personal Modification of Guthrie Tartan

[Guthrumironhead]

Hi all. I'm not sure if this is the right spot for this, but here goes. I was playing around with one of the online tartan design sites and came up with this. It's a spin on the Guthrie tartan. I simply switched the black and red. The sett was not changed. I call it Carolina Guthrie. The blue is Carolina Blue and the green is supposed to match the longleaf pine. It was done strictly as a fun exercise. Here it is next to Guthrie in ancient colors for comparison. Any thoughts?

[Orvis]

Your variation looks good - nice and simple. Colors are not outlandish and blend well.

[Jock Scot]

Perhaps your Clan Chief might have an opinion on the adjustment?

[Mike S]

The clan Guthrie tartan is based off of the County Angus tartan where our Guthrie ancestor's were based. It might be a better idea to utilize that very similar tartan as the basis of your variation, so there is no messiness with the clan as Jock intimated might occur.

Cheers from a fellow Guthrie.

[Guthrumironhead]

I definitely don’t want to create any controversy. Thanks to all!

[OC Richard]

I wouldn't think there would be controversy... weavers weave tartans in differing colour-schemes all the time.

Look at Royal Stewart! It's woven with the background in red, dark blue, light blue, grey, tan, black, white.

And not just that tartan, a number of tartans are in production in various colour-schemes.

What I don't know is if changing one or more colours is considered to be creating a new tartan, or a different version of the same tartan.