KIlt Color Palettes, The STA, the SRT, and Wilsons of Bannokburn

[RGM1]

I assume from your reference to "tartan WEEK" that you meant NYC. That leads me to ask if you have any knowledge regarding what bands will be coming from Scotland this April.

I'll also jump on one of OCR's posts to offer something about color comparisons.

(and I certainly wish I could correct that missing "c" in Wilson's of Bannockburn in the thread title)!

I have no awareness of who will be participating in the parade this year. I attended the Hoolie at Carnegie hall afterwards which was wonderful. Sad there will not be a repeat this year. Only disadvantage was I had to choose between attending it or going to dinner with clan. Having a ticket I made the choice to go to the Hoolie. Not having the conflict this year, I am debating a repeat visit.

[OC Richard]

They still use a good number of original Wilsons' of Bannockburn's c1830-40 plaids (probably two separate weavings) but as some were getting too fragile, they had new material woven by HOE to match (sort of) one of them.

Guessing that HOE didn't dye yarn specially for that weave, I wonder what colours they used.

With HOE having three colour ranges from which to choose (modern, ancient, muted) they might be able to put together a combination of stock colours which looks something like some of the Wilsons weaves.

A while ago I mentioned the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band doing that, coming up with a new colour-scheme for their kilts by combining the currently available "modern" blue and "ancient" green to produce something vaguely akin to some of the Wilsons colour combinations.

Left, their old kilts with "ancient" blue, green, and red.

Right, their new kilts combining "ancient" green with "modern" blue.



Something like that occurred in the more modern kilts between the Black Watch and the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, both the blue and green in the BW kilts being quite dark (left) and the Argylls having the dark blue but a much lighter green, almost the "ancient" green (right).

[figheadair]

Guessing that HOE didn't dye yarn specially for that weave, I wonder what colours they used.

With HOE having three colour ranges from which to choose (modern, ancient, muted) they might be able to put together a combination of stock colours which looks something like some of the Wilsons weaves.

I don't know if they used stock shades or dyed to order but will check and confirm.

A while ago I mentioned the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band doing that, coming up with a new colour-scheme for their kilts by combining the currently available "modern" blue and "ancient" green to produce something vaguely akin to some of the Wilsons colour combinations.

Left, their old kilts with "ancient" blue, green, and red.

Right, their new kilts combining "ancient" green with "modern" blue.

The new kilts are so much nicer IMO. The darker blue improves it no end and gets back towards a Wilsons' like colouring although the green is still wrong. It should be a more mossy shade per this specimen from an 1833 sample book.

[Adrian]

I have some yarn that is very close to that moss green, think have more than 1 shade option. And the dye recipe will be in the dye house library. Our core stock colours will not be separated into ancient, modern, muted etc it's based on volume used so that have 40-50 shades with some stock then the rest falls into dyed to order. Luckily have quite a range of shades from the D C Dalgliesh liquidation purchase.