My Outlander type tartan and matching shawl is here !

[Angela Kaye Bodine]

I got my 9th kilt this week ! My Outlander type tartan and matching shawl ! Its beautiful ! Bonnie did a terrific job.. I will post picture soon, w the help of Mike of course... I just know it as The Outlander type tartan ( brown and bluish grey) hunter I believe ....Supposedly the woman that did the kilts etc had the tartans made just for the T.v. show.BUT this kilt truly does look like the one on the show ( Jaime's tartan). so I really do not know anything more about it, other than I like it.Thank you...Angie

[Mike S]

Sounds great, can't wait to see it. As soon as Angie sends me the photos, I will upload and post them.

[OC Richard]

Like one of these?

They look like tartans in Dalgleish's "reproduction" colours (what Lochcarron calls "weathered"). The colours are shifted from the usual colours thus:

green > brownish olive
blue > grey



The difference between tartans done in "reproduction" and "modern" colours is so striking that sometimes it's difficult to recognise that two tartans are in fact the same.

For example this



scarcely looks like it could be the same tartan as this

[Angela Kaye Bodine]

OC Richard, Thank u very much ! The middle one is exactly like my new Outlander kilt ! Thank u very much ..So would I call it Dalgleish tartan ?.... Angie

[Steve Ashton]

The middle picture in OC Richard's post is the Black Watch Tartan in the weathered colorway.

[Angela Kaye Bodine]

Steve Ashton, Thank you very much I appreciate it, I didn't know it was firm like what Mike said..I like to learn, and I appreciate it..This site is great..All are great on here. XMARKS THE SCOT is great ..It helps a green horn like myself....Thank you.. Angie

[Mike S]

OC Richard, Thank u very much ! The middle one is exactly like my new Outlander kilt ! Thank u very much ..So would I call it Dalgleish tartan ?.... Angie

No Angela, Dalgleish is the name of a weaving firm not a tartan. Richard is saying that the Dalgleish firm calls those color palettes "Reproduction" while most other weavers such as Lochcarron call it "Weathered".

[figheadair]

To clarify, Reproduction Colours is a protected commercial name for a particular colour range that is owned and produced by D.C. Dalgliesh Ltd. Because of this other manufacturers wanting to cash in on the popularity of these type of shades had to produce something simlar and call them something else, hence Weathered Colours produced by the likes of Lochcarron. Whilst they are extremely popular, what one needs to bear in mind is that, based on surviving early specimens, neither range is historically accurate and would not have been common, if seen at all, during in period portrayed by the Outlander series and the like. This is especially the case with [I]Reproduction Colours[I/] which , as has been discussed elsewhere on Xmarks, are a clever trade invention rather than being based on an old specimen as claimed.

[Angela Kaye Bodine]

Mike S, Oh ! I didn't know that .. Thank you for telling me. I do like to learn.. I appreciate it.. this site is great :-)...Angie

[Tarheel]

Now that the clarification is settled. Great kilt Angie and a special thanks to Bonnie Heather for a job well done.