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[Skipper1]

Hi - my SHip is called HMCS Edmonton (after the city). Last eyar I obtained several yards of the City's tartan done up as table cloths - they are in wool so we teat them very carfully. Recenlty the CO's wife volunteered to make up some napkins to match if I could find some of the tartan in a washable tartan. ANy advice on how to get the tartan in a washable material that won't cost to much. I emailed the orginal wool tartan supplier but they dont seem to be answering. ith:
Here is a link to the tartan:
http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tar....aspx?ref=1087

[CDNSushi]

That's a tall order. Have you tried phoning the supplier directly? Aside from that, I did a bit of research (being from Edmonton, essentially), and the best I could find out is this: the Edmonton tartan was designed by the Edmonton Rehabilitation Society for the Handicapped which doesn't seem to exist anymore. I was going to suggest contacting them...The tartan was designed back in the '60s and the last mention I found of the society was from the '70s.

Seeing that this is not possible, nor could I find an Edmonton-based distributor of the Edmonton tartan, I think your best bet would be to get something "woven to order" from someone. Matt Newsome could most likely help you out with that, as could scotweb.co.uk, but I don't know if either of them can do woven-to-order in anything other than wool (e.g. PV) seeing that you need it to be washable...

Sorry I couldn't be of any more help -- there is precious little info about either the Alberta tartan or the Edmonton tartan -- most of it is simply just official gov't info about what the official tartans are... I don't know if anyone actually wears them.

[fluter]

Ask Gordon Kirkbright at Fraser & Kirkbright Weaving Co in Vancouver. They list mostly wool and a few poly-wool blends. Among them is Alberta in a 10-ounce wool.

Their US associate in North Carolina http://www.thescottishweaver.com/ has some cotton and different blends.

[Skipper1]

Hi guys - many thanks for the advice - as you can see by my atrocious spelling on the last post I wrote it at the end of a 7 hour watch (0100) last night. I am surprized anyone could actually read it. I barely could understand it when I read it again this evening. I am writing a little bit earlier in the watch tonight. I will try the contact in vancouver re getting something woven to order in PV.

[Skipper1]

Hi again - I contacted the Vancouver firm and they were the firm that produced the orginal rolls of this tartan (albeit under a different name). Unfortunately they couldn't reproduce it except in 25 yards swaths and the cost was exhorbitant for the ship. I will need to contact the dealer again in Edmonton to find out if they have any of the wool tartan left and what they could sell several meters to me for. Again, thanks for your help and advice. It got me moving in the right direction.