There was a huge fad a decade or so ago for grey-scale tartans, mainly driven by the kilt hire industry in Scotland.
For those who aren't aware, kilt hire is big business in Scotland, like tux shops are here in the USA.
Thousands of yards of tartan are woven, thousands of kilts are made, for the kilt hire industry.
It goes through fads.
A number of years ago it was gripped by the popularity of all-grey tartans. Many were new grey versions of ordinary existing tartans, the most popular was Grey Douglas but Grey Stewart (a grey version of Royal Stewart) and "Grey Watch" and many others were created.
Also dozens of new tartans in grey were created like Highland Granite and so forth.
Not to be confused with "reproduction" or "weathered" tartans which have been around since the 1950s in which blue becomes grey and green becomes brown.
Last edited by OC Richard; 7th November 18 at 06:20 AM.
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