Knotty - MacLean Grey?

[davidlpope]

Have you looked at the Tara/Murphy tartan? It's the same concept: start with the Maclean of Duart tartan and fiddle with the colors...

http://www.dcdalgliesh.co.uk/tartan_found.rpy?id=107419

[SlackerDrummer]

The problem I have is the mixing of colors from the various pallets. Why not start with Maclean Hunting. Change the green to peat brown, the black to charcoal gray and the white to morning gray. Then you'd have the pallet you want (weathered Black Watch) with minimal corruption of the original tartan.

[knotty]

Thats another idea too.
Im not sure "corruption" is the word I would use.

The problem I have is the mixing of colors from the various pallets. Why not start with Maclean Hunting. Change the green to peat brown, the black to charcoal gray and the white to morning gray. Then you'd have the pallet you want (weathered Black Watch) with minimal corruption of the original tartan.

[madmacs]

The problem I have is the mixing of colors from the various pallets. Why not start with Maclean Hunting. Change the green to peat brown, the black to charcoal gray and the white to morning gray. Then you'd have the pallet you want (weathered Black Watch) with minimal corruption of the original tartan.

Sounds like weathered maclean hunting which locharron used to make...

[SlackerDrummer]

Sounds like weathered maclean hunting which locharron used to make...

Sounds like it, but it's not. In a true "weathered" or "reproduction" pallet from most mills, black stays black. I'm advocating bringing the black somewhere between black and the gray that blue becomes in this pallet typically.

Lochcarron's weathered Maclean Hunting:

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[davidlpope]

Sounds like it, but it's not. In a true "weathered" or "reproduction" pallet from most mills, black stays black. I'm advocating bringing the black somewhere between black and the gray that blue becomes in this pallet typically.

Lochcarron's weathered Maclean Hunting:

source

The "black" in Dalgleish's Reproduction Colors is a very dark brown.

[SlackerDrummer]

The "black" in Dalgleish's Reproduction Colors is a very dark brown.

On the MacMillan Hunting in reproduction colors, black (K) is listed as Brown10. On the Maclean Hunting in reproduction colors, however, black (K) is listed as Gray10, the same "black" as in there modern pallet. I suppose it depends on the other colors in the tartan and/or what they think will look best.

[davidlpope]

On the MacMillan Hunting in reproduction colors, black (K) is listed as Brown10. On the Maclean Hunting in reproduction colors, however, black (K) is listed as Gray10, the same "black" as in there modern pallet. I suppose it depends on the other colors in the tartan and/or what they think will look best.

Agree. The Reproduction Ancient Macmillan from Dalgleish uses black. Although, as a recent Dalgleish custom-order has shown, take ALL Dalgleish's specified yarn colors with a grain of salt...

[knotty]

Yes I have. There must be some connection...

Have you looked at the Tara/Murphy tartan? It's the same concept: start with the Maclean of Duart tartan and fiddle with the colors...

http://www.dcdalgliesh.co.uk/tartan_found.rpy?id=107419