Nick,

Something I would like to see is the color palletes.

The trouble with looking at tartan swatches online is the images don't tend to have any context to them. Can you maybe throw down some hanks or skeins or whatever of typical thread colors on a neutral background like a piece of wood or a grey sheet, and then arrange some other familiar items in the same picture?

Dixon- Ticonderoga #2 is a very well known yellow pencil in the states, I would be happy to send you a box of them.

A chunk of wax from a Maker's Mark bourbon bottle, very well known red in the states.

A very well known blue is the box that Reynolds wrap Aluminum foil comes in, every grocery store in the states carries it.

If you can host some images like that, with the caveat that exact colors of course will vary from dye lot to dye lot, I think a lot of foks on this side of the pond would find it helpful.

In my case, I proposed on November 21. By December 15th my bride was comitted to me wearing a kilt to the ceremony. I ordered swatches from three different vendors the last half of December.

Scotweb was closed however many days for Hogmany before my order shipped, but you got my swatch to my door in about three weeks. And you smoked the vendor in second place for timely swatch delivery, absolutely spanked them.

The trouble was co-ordinating the bridesmaid's dresses with the colors in the kilt. We settled on Loch Carron Strome without having a swatch in hand, did our best with the image on the LC website and probably would have chosen a different color cloth for the bridesmaid's dresses if the swatch was here.

I am confident a lot of your business is wedding business, and I am confident if I ever again marry I will not sign up for six months of being engaged again. Six months is _barely_ long enough to order swatches and then have the kilt and bridesmaids dresses made simultaneously.

My hunch is if the bride to be can "see" the colors that are going to be used in the groom's kilt she can have the bride'smaids dresses made without having to wait for a swatch to come in. That will allow you to sell to couples getting married in 8-12 weeks for the kilt plus X many days to weave, rather than a six month engagement being barely long enough to get the groom's kilt and maid's dresses coordinated.

FWIW these are three major colors from the Loch Carron Strome modern pallette, in a context almost any American can work with for wedding planning.



As illustrated, someone who doesn't know what a D-T #2 pencil looks like has no idea what any of those colors really are. But someone who has a D-T #2 in a cup on the desk beside the computer monitor will know exactly.

The swatch images on scotweb are as good as any other on the internet and better than most. No need to reinvent that wheel.

I have five different swatches in my house now of my clan modern red and clan modern green. I haven't the foggiest idea what the ancient green would really look like in person.

If I were to roll by the Dagliesh website and see the ancient colors of threads arranged on a context I could relate to, have that open in one window and the scotweb swatch open in another window, well, I would probably bookmark the Dagliesh page.

Really I am trying to pick between clan hunting muted and clan green ancient for my next kilt. Do I really have to spend another $100 on swatches and wait two months before I can make a decision?

M2c. Providing Olde World quality on an American timetable is going to be a tall order.