material changes a tartan?

[fluter]

PS: I think the grey examples are both STA #3121. Oh yes, they are linked from Scotweb. So looking at the URL's, we see it's a Batley 11 oz and the Marton Mills PV.

... the second one would be called grey because???

Try looking at the same fabric on USAK's Web site: Here or at Marton Mills: here.

Remember that Scotweb can order you 16789 different tartans. Some of them will be woven to order, so they don't even exist yet, to scan or photograph.

Scooby's mom used to make formal wear for an opera company. She discovered that in the early twentieth century, with the introduction of incandescent light, many makers went to midnight blue for formal jackets because it still appeared black under artificial lighting conditions.

I think the real reason was that the Duke of Windsor started wearing it. I have a midnight blue dinner jacket which looks black---unless you see it under stage lighting next to a black one!