If there is a color you absolutely have to have, what you might want to try doing instead of making it a primary color is making it a two line accent color and nothing else. I know a lot of people wanted to be bold and jump out, but honestly some colors pop better when there is just a little bit of it and nothing else. Even this doesn’t guarantee that you’re gonna find the right place for that color
As gorgeous as Nordic Heritage Tartan is I think there will be another Viking inspired Tartan in the USA Kilt future and Eric will get his lichen derived purple in that one.
It's difficult to incorporate an odd year like 1973, or 1837. I guess, in those instances, you can go forard using an odd number of ends, like 11, or 17. You can round up to an even number. I guess there are other way to calculate odd number years. Even numbered years are easy to incorporate in many cases. I'm still trying to figure that out myself. I designed a tartan to celebrate the bicentennial of the War of 1812. It's registerewd under: Common Ground (Dress) - SRT:10579. I could have used 18 ends and 12 ends to arrange a suitable thread count, and it turned out alright. If it was a kilt, it would make the wearer look like a Harliquin clown. Still, I would totally wear tat pattern.
Of all the tartans I designed, It usually took a few weeks to create. Some had five, or so, prototypes. One had almost 96 prototypes before it was finished.
Realizing that someone somewhere will likely put me on blast for this, personally I find the MacNaughton tartan to be ugly. Bad for someone of MacNaughton blood to say yes, but it's how I feel. My question is ... If you were of a mind to or even contracted to, how would you redesign it? Or do you think it's fine as is?
We need a better looking Dutch Tartan design. All that mustard and purple in the existing one is ugly and simply misrepresenting our fantastic nation. The tartan needs navy and navy hues with a fine thread of orange, powder blue, and white. How do we make it happen, Rockie?
Rocky, long winded answers are fine if the end result is understood. I got it!
My custom tartan, Brothers and Sisters of Paramedicine, took over a month to finalize. It was registered in the SRT two years later.
How about the second half of the question? I'm got a design in hand. How do I turn that into fabric in hand?
“A small committee of three to six people…?”
How about three or five (to keep it both small and odd). 😁
If there is a color you absolutely have to have, what you might want to try doing instead of making it a primary color is making it a two line accent color and nothing else. I know a lot of people wanted to be bold and jump out, but honestly some colors pop better when there is just a little bit of it and nothing else. Even this doesn’t guarantee that you’re gonna find the right place for that color
As gorgeous as Nordic Heritage Tartan is I think there will be another Viking inspired Tartan in the USA Kilt future and Eric will get his lichen derived purple in that one.
How do you incorporate a year into the design of a tartan?
It's difficult to incorporate an odd year like 1973, or 1837. I guess, in those instances, you can go forard using an odd number of ends, like 11, or 17. You can round up to an even number. I guess there are other way to calculate odd number years. Even numbered years are easy to incorporate in many cases. I'm still trying to figure that out myself. I designed a tartan to celebrate the bicentennial of the War of 1812. It's registerewd under: Common Ground (Dress) - SRT:10579. I could have used 18 ends and 12 ends to arrange a suitable thread count, and it turned out alright. If it was a kilt, it would make the wearer look like a Harliquin clown. Still, I would totally wear tat pattern.
Of all the tartans I designed, It usually took a few weeks to create. Some had five, or so, prototypes. One had almost 96 prototypes before it was finished.
96?! Wow!
@@USAKiltsOfficial I kept the color pallete but struggled with the thread count.
In short, "If you try to please everyone, you end up pleasing no one."
Realizing that someone somewhere will likely put me on blast for this, personally I find the MacNaughton tartan to be ugly. Bad for someone of MacNaughton blood to say yes, but it's how I feel.
My question is ... If you were of a mind to or even contracted to, how would you redesign it? Or do you think it's fine as is?
We need a better looking Dutch Tartan design. All that mustard and purple in the existing one is ugly and simply misrepresenting our fantastic nation. The tartan needs navy and navy hues with a fine thread of orange, powder blue, and white. How do we make it happen, Rockie?