Pink Kilt...?

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My brother is getting married sometime next year, and he wants to wear a kilt. We're Campbells, and she's a Stewart, so a kilted wedding would be most appropriate. However, pink is going to be one of the primary colors for the wedding, and he asked me to see if I could find a tartan that was pink or had pink in it. The only one I've been able to find is the Mary, Queen of Scots tartan...

Any thoughts?

Hi Crusty, we had a thread on this once before, which you can find here.

Here are all the tartans with pink or a pinkish colour in them that Lochcarron produce: Aberdeen, Ancient Baird, Ancient Bruce of Kinnaird, Weathered Buchan, Buchanan Old Weathered, Ancient Cameron Hunting, Ancient Davidson Clan, Ancient Dundee Old, Weathered Fraser Hunting, Weathered Fraser Red, Glasgow, Ancient Gordon Red, Weathered Gordon Red, Weathered Grant, Weathered Gunn, Weathered Guthrie, Weathered Kennedy, Ancient Lindsay, Weathered Lochaber, Weathered Lochcarron Hunting, Weathered MacDonald Clan, Ancient MacDuff Hunting, Weathered MacFarlane, Ancient MacGregor Hunting, Ancient MacKinlay, Weathered MacLachlan, Weathered MacLean of Duart, Weathered MacLeod of Harris, Weathered MacNaughton, Weathered Ross Hunting, Weathered Scott Green, Ancient Shaw Tordarroch Hunting, Ancient Shaw Tordarroch Red, Weathered Stewart Dress, Stirling & Bannockburn, Ancient Taylor, Manitoba, Maple Leaf, and Ontario.
House of Edgar produce these tartans with a pinkish element: Cameron of Erracht Ancient, Cameron of Lochiel Hunting Muted, Campbell of Cawdor Ancient, Chisholm Hunting Ancient, Cumming Hunting Ancient, Davidson Ancient, Duncan Modern, Farquharson Ancient, Fraser Hunting Ancient, Galbraith/Russell/Mitchell Ancient, Gordon Red Ancient, Robertson Hunting Ancient, Stewart of Atholl Ancient, Stewart Dress Muted, Wilson Ancient.

Some of the 'pink' stripes in the tartans listed are more of a coral, raspberry, fuschia, rose, or other related hue, rather than a true pink -- the ones in boldface are the 'pinkest'. I put the Campbell and Stewart tartans with a pinkish stripe in italics. In many of these tartans, the pink stripe is quite a minor element, but it does tend to stand out against most backgrounds.

Tell your brother: Before ordering a made-to-measure kilt, be sure to get a swatch of the material in the weight you want for your kilt, as colours can be a bit different across the same tartan sett and colourway in different weights. They are quite different from one weaving house to another. The other notable tartan weavers include Strathmore, Marton Mills, and N. Batley, but I'm not familiar enough with their ranges to tell you what they offer with pink in it. Most of these mills, as well as D.C. Dalgliesh, can weave something to order for you, but a minimum yardage of at least 10 metres (double width -- more than enough for 2 kilts) usually applies. You'd need to go through a Scottish imports shop or kiltmaker to order tartan from any of the mills.

Slainte,

Cyndi