Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
I really have to ask and I ask out of interest and not for any other reason.

Do people really and how often, do they take that much bother over choosing the precise colours for their kilts? Particularly with established tartans?

Alright I can see if its a brand new, to the world, tartan has just been born, then care on choosing the right shades of colours might be an issue, but anything more?
I went through this for my wedding. If it was just me I would have ordered clan green and then if I needed more shirts or whatever to build a few outfits, so be it.

It is _extremely_ important to us that the bridesmaids dresses not clash with the tartan in my kilt, my nearest clan cousin with a kilt in my tartan is about 1,000 miles away in Seattle, most likely.

I guess in my situation tartan is new to my world.

But same modern palette I pictured with less than five meters of yarn would be the same yarn sample to send to someone from each of Clan MacMustard, McPickle, MacCatsup and Black Watch and Royal Stewart and Hunting Stewart. I guess Isle of Skye might be one of a few exceptions.

I imagine no one is profiting five pence per transaction in the swatch trade.

And I would really like to get a feel for my options in ancient or muted, for a lot less than I spent on red and green swatches ;-)

Anyway, Nick's call. I logged in the next morning after naming the elephant on the carpet wondering if I wouldn't find myself banned.