Tartan question, hunting and dress

[Tobus]

So I'm not sure if some vendors choose to use the weathered and hunting (or green variations and hunting) as interchangable descriptions.

They might, but they would be using the terms incorrectly.

"Dress" and "hunting" are usually specific tartan pattern variations with a different sett from the original, where "ancient", "reproduction", "modern", "muted" and "weathered" are all just color variations of the proper original clan tartan.

There may be some examples out there of hunting tartans that have the exact same sett as the original clan tartan, but in different shades or colors. But that still wouldn't make them necessarily interchangeable with the weathered variations.

[Mike_Oettle]

The concept of a hunting tartan is that one could wear it out in the forest or the moor while hunting without disturbing the prey.
They are generally green, but there does not have to be any correspondence between the hunting sett and the family or clan sett.
Gayre of Gayre and Nigg produced a “hunting” design that was a whole lot brighter than his “clan” tartan, which rather lampooned the whole concept. But then he was chief of a self-invented clan, which in itself can be seen as a lampoon.
Regards,
Mike

[Ryan Ross]

There may be some examples out there of hunting tartans that have the exact same sett as the original clan tartan, but in different shades or colors.

Indeed!

Take Wallace:

http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tar....aspx?ref=4482

And Wallace Hunting:

http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tar....aspx?ref=4486

Also, here's a great article on the topic:

http://albanach.org/colors.html