I'm not exactly sure what you're unimpressed by, Canuck, but if the shades are wrong that's easy to fix! For tartan patterns that we've not woven since our online systems were developed, we usually display four variants, all of which are automagically produced by our computers.

"Weavers' Colours" are the closest match to the (usually quite vague) shades recorded in the Scottish Tartans Register. Modern, Ancient, and Reproduction palettes are created to default formulae to give a flavour of the different treatments. We always review these with an expert human eye anyway before weaving any, but if there's more established colours already known we'll employ these instead. Hope this helps.

Nick