Very nice budget tartan on ebay..$6.99 a yard!

[Alan H]

Drat - checking with 'Tartan Ferret' shows that the tartan is registered, as Semple, fairly recently too - the light stripe is really cream or white, rather than yellow.

It is rectangular rather than square, but recognisable. The ferret shows the same stripes and bands - not being a member I can't get the actual thread count, but it is

red (blue black)3 green white green (black blue)3

Perhaps I can dye it so the light stripe becomes another colour - something off beat like turquoise - it will affect the red stripe but not the dark colours.

This is very annoying.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

This is your "Black Watch plus stripes" right, not the stuff I pointed out on the ebay listing?

[Pleater]

Yes, I started to look around on eBay - whilst I was there, I thought, I'd just see what else was on offer and it was described as Black watch plus the stripes, but the sett is rather smaller than the BW and having got a good look at it in daylight this morning, whilst the background is the blackwatch colours the pattern repeat is that of the Semple tartan.

Ah well - if I cut it into pieces I can make subtly different tartans from it with judicious overdyeing, turquiose, true blue - maybe even pink.

Not a disaster really - just an opportunity to be creative.

I could even double the size of the sett by using fabric paints and colouring the stripes differently.

It wasn't all that expensive, which really makes it all the more surprising that it is a recognisable tartan.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: