A Fashion Idea for Kilt Builders

[Mr.Charles Anthony]

Good Readers & Kilt-a-philles, Greetings!
Here is a wonderfilled idea I came across at the recent Maine Highland Games.
A fellow strolled by in a Ploid Jacket and Great Kilt,(the Traditionl, un-structured type of kilt) the predominate colours of which were dark red and black. The entire kilt was hemmed in yellow worsted wool tape(tape= a narrow width of fabrick, in various lenghts). Now the details; he had first sewn one edge to the underside of the fabrick, to a depth of one inch(of a 4 inch wide tape). The remaining width was folded back and over the raw edge of the kilt fabrick, thus 3 inches showed on the face of the kilt as worn, and sewn in place. The result was no frayed edges to the kilt, and traditionaly, the edges were not fringed nor frayed, and it made a most handsome apperance to the Great Kilt. A bit of the same Tape was used for stocking garters(now Flashes).
A fabrick choice note here, if you do this, stay with the wool tape trims, or perhaps linnen; avoid the man made fabricks. The reason, these natural fibers will hold the pleat created in the kilt. For thoes with a modern kilt, you may have your hands full sewing about the premade pleates. And check with your Distaff side as to what colour tape to wear with your ploid colours, most men have no sense of such; I know I do not!
Happy Sewing
Squire Charles Anthony
74th Regt.Argyle Highlanders(re-created)

[starbkjrus]

Ummmm...ploid?

-ploid
suff.
Having a number of chromosomes that has a specified relationship to, or is a multiple of, the basic number of chromosomes of a group: heteroploid.
[From diploid and haploid.]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/-ploid

[Carolina Kiltman]

"Ploid"? I see your keyboard, like mind has a mine of its own. Welcome to the club!

[Mr.Charles Anthony]

Readers
Ploid, as I understand the term, is an old form of Plaid, as Claymore was originally Glaymore, words migrate in spellings.

[Rex_Tremende]

Noah Webster slowed that down a bit. You're still catching up?

[Dixiecat]

A fabrick choice note here, if you do this, stay with the wool tape trims, or perhaps linnen

I've recently found out that mixing wool and linen in the same garment is not kosher, thereby making a kilt unwearable by a person of the Jewish faith.

Wool kilt, wool tape = ok
Linen kilt, linen tape = ok
wool kilt, linen tape (or vise versa) = no way

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Readers
Ploid, as I understand the term, is an old form of Plaid, as Claymore was originally Glaymore, words migrate in spellings.

Actually the word was claiomh mor (for a two handed broad sword) and claiomh beg (for a one handed sword). Lowlanders, and those Scots with whom the "English" was a second tongue, would have used the word "swird" for sword, or in the common slang, "airn". By the late 17th century the term "claymore" had come to mean a basket hilted sword, often fitted with a blade cut down from a "proper" claymore, or two handed sword.

Now to my point. There is little phonetic difference between the spoken word "claymore" and the spoken word "glaymore", but there is a fair bit of difference between them when typed out on a computer. And as you so rightly point out, words do migrate in spellings.

Archaic spelling, just like writing in "accents", tends to slow down the flow of the narrative, annoy the reader, and result in people like me (Chairman of the Society for the Use of Plain English) going off on a tangent about swords (or blimps, or whatever) because (1) I really thought you had a good idea in your original post and (2) missed part of it because of your reference to chromosomal groupings.

Now Squire Anthony, please take no umbarge at my rebuke; I offer my words gently (if not forsoothly) in the hope that you will grace us in the future with your notions and observations in a manner most pleasant to read.

[beloitpiper]

Do you have any photos? I'm having a hard time picturing this.

[Bugbear]

I think that technique is called a Hong Kong finish, but I'm not sure.


100%-Worsted Wool Twill Tape from Wooded Hamlet Designs

You will have to find a way to tack the tape to the outside of the kilt; some kind of handsewn, blind hem stitch.

I've seen this done on clothing that needed a raw edge covered, but there was no allowance, or enough length I guess, to make a hem. Instead, a strip of fabric is sewn over the raw edge, and because it could never be hidden, it is made into a feature with a complementary colored fabric.

Although, it is often done by sewing the tape to the fabric right side to right side, folding the outside back over itself, then tacking it down on the inside like a hem would be done. There would be no stitches showing and no edge of the tape showing that way.

[Woodsheal]

You are undoubtedly referring to my reenactment friend Hank Griffith. Here he is in all his martial glory (and you can see the yellow wool tape edging his plaid):



Edge taping on plaids appears in some early images. For example: