Feileadh Mor tartan as camouflage?

[The Q]

My opinion of the tartan / camouflage discussion is.

1, When you dyed your wool, you used the materials around you to produce the dyes. Therefore if you are in your home area your dyed wool will match the surrounding scenery whether bright or not ( for the most part ). It's that time of year at the moment SWMBO is busy collecting for her weaving group....

2, Highlanders and come to that everyone else outside the big towns and cities will have known about camouflage and concealment, hunting was part of the way of life. ( Even if the laird didn't think so)

3, Warfare of the period was roughly the same throughout Europe, big troops of men marching up to formal battles. However local military enforcement against local "rebels" ( and the reverse ) would be more like guerrilla tactics.

4, Loose cloth as in a feileadh mor, will break up the human shape whatever the colour.

5 The red coats were not the scarlet most people think of until 1881, but a much duller red madder colour.