If your group has a TARTAN Neckerchief you may have found it difficult to find good quality tartan images to use. This page will allow you to produce most tartans.
We apologise now for the slightly convoluted entry method, but we hope that you can understand the code.
To enter the pattern of the warp and weft, you enter the thread pattern, which is a series of colour codes separated by spaces. Each colour code is made up of two parts, the colour and the number of threads. These are specified as follows:
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One of the predifined colours (B) Blue, (G) Green, (K) Black, (N) Navy, (O) Orange, (R) Red, (W) White, (Y) Yellow, followed by an number e.g. R20 is twenty threads of red, G2 is two threads of green.
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A RedGreenBlue code where the RGB values lie between 0 and 5, separated from the thread count by a colon, e.g. 000:20 is twenty threads of black, and 555:10 is ten threads of white. (See colour codes)
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A RedGreenBlue code where the RGB values are hexadecimal numbers, separated from the thread count by a colon, these are prefixed by a #, and can be either 3 digits or 6 digits long, e.g. #000:20 is twenty threads of black, and #FFFFFF:10 is ten threads of white. (See colour codes)
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If you have defined a colour it is automatically stored in memory (colours in the Warp in order followed by colours in the weft in order). The first colour you specify by either method 2 or 3, is 'X0', the second 'X1', ... The thread count is again separated by a colon. e.g. if the input was '#000:20 Y10 X0:20' this would correspond to twenty threads of black, followed by ten threads of yellow followed by another twenty black.
Finally (i) if the warp or weft is symmetric, you only need to include half the threads, and then click on the Mirror warp or Mirror weft buttons. (ii) if the weft and warp are the same then you only need to specify the warp.
Example (Scout tartan):
- Warp: Y2 #060:12 300:8 X0:40 #000066:40 X0:62 X1:8
- Weft:
- Mirror Warp: checked
- Mirror Weft: (irrelevent)
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- Warp: Y2 G12 R8 G40 N40 G62 R8
- Weft:
- Mirror Warp: checked
- Mirror Weft: (irrelevent)
Notes: This page will generate an optimised GIF file for you. You can save your tartan using your browsers Save As option, and to get back to this page, just hit the BACK button on your browser.
