Feileadh Mor tartan as camouflage?

[Bamamedic]

You missed my point entirely, which was camouflage was not a common concept prior to the mid-19th century. Tartan may have provided that capability, but it was not the intent when the weaver the his dyes. He used what dyes he could obtain.

It's fascinating to think that people who leveraged technology into world wide empires couldn't even conceptualize hiding from a stag, or an enemy. Especially since such things were long known to many of the other peoples of the world.