I have a source for the Bow Tie at a considerable discount (The Bow Tie Club, in NY State), but that sale ends today. Just to be sure any potential "weighers-in" are uncertain regarding my query, here's the Burns Check tartan



And, two possible pairings, one "family," the second "fashion"




Robertson Hunting (weathered)
(Lochcarron 16 oz Heavyweight)




Lunar
(DC, Dalgliesh, R.I.P.)



And, for completeness, an image of the tie itself in/on the (virtual) flesh:




And, just to muddy the waters/palette a bit, I have a few corollary questions:


  1. As I've noted, the cloth for the Robertson Hunting (weathered) was sourced from Lochcarron Mills (heavyweight, so probably previously worn, unsheared and undyed, by neighborhood sheep). It's not separately listed on the SRT website, presumably because its design using a slightly different color palette, is ALREADY registered, but to my decidedly inexperienced eye I'm not sure from WHICH Robertson Hunting registered tartan it would claim its derivation.
  2. The second is actually a bigger puzzle. My "Lunar" kilt was made for me by Barb Tewksbury. On the SRT website, the registrant is said to be the Pendleton Woolen Mills, but the IMAGE on the website appears to be a REVISION of the original tartan, which at creation contained at least one brown stripe. Somewhere around 2014 Professor Tewksbury made a few kilts for folk whose creds AUTOMATICALLY qualified them to "wear the colors," as NASA astronauts or administrators—or actually the ABSENCE of colors, because she objected to the presence of the brown stripe(s), given that her day job as an eminent professor of planetary geology enabled her to point out that "there's no brown on the moon." The "brown redacted" image borrowed from the SRT website and now worn on my corpus from time to time reflects that change. I suspect that my second puzzlement is a manifestation of the same phenomenon; i.e., maintenance of the defining threadcounts of the original that was registered with the Scottish Tartan Authority, but a subtle change in the color palette. Back when Professor Tewksbury was struggling to obtain cloth for a few more "Lunar" tartan kilts a year or two ago, the revision was listed on the Dalgliesh website as "Lunar 2."


And, reflecting Professor Tewksbury's razor-focused attention to detail, those more recent Lunar kilts required that cloth from D.C. Dalgliesh, even though USA Kilts commissioned a 50th Anniversary weaving of the Lunar 2 Tartan as well (I think from Lochcarron, although I'm not certain of that), because Rocky Roeger had the cloth woven using "marled" yarns, which subtly blends the interface between stripes. Barb noted that given the absence of atmosphere on the moon, there would be NO such diffusion of the interface between different physical materials.