Value fabric?

**Sean Wilson** · 22nd January 16, 01:42 PM

I'm looking for 16oz wool tartan to make a kilt from. Has anyone any experience of fabric from "the house of tartan" their prices are extremely cheap. Maybe the product it too good to be true?

http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland....&subsecid=1499

**figheadair** · 23rd January 16, 01:58 AM

House of Tartan is a member of the Scottish Tartans Authority. Their service and reliability is excellent. The price is very competative but it' worth checking the source/quality of the cloth. At that price it's probaly not woven in Scotland and is likely to have a tuck edge rather than a selvedge.

**Sean Wilson** · 23rd January 16, 03:45 AM

Thanks for the reply. The advert says it has a "kilt selvege for kilt making". Dosen't mention the source though.

**KiltFitz** · 28th January 16, 03:24 PM

Looks like they are retailing Marton Mills cloth

**Barb T** · 3rd February 16, 06:54 PM

Originally Posted by KiltFitz

Looks like they are retailing Marton Mills cloth

Hmm, no I don't think so. There are tartans on the list (e.g., Isle of Skye) that Marton Mills doesn't weave.

**KiltFitz** · 3rd February 16, 07:20 PM

Sorry but unless they stopped production due to licence, it is order code JR014 from the Jura range. It is in the Jura swatch book (number 2) I received a month ago and hasn't any update as to availability like many of the other tartans which they have ceased. In fact, I think it was one of their most popular tartans of the last few years or so they told me at the trade fair I attended about a week ago. They also make it in PV Balmoral range.

Not all of their current production tartans are on the website.

I presume the supplier here may have based their product list on a range sent to them by MM.

**Barb T** · 3rd February 16, 07:36 PM

I thought that Lochcarron was the only authorized weaver of IoS?? The Register says that it owned by Mrs Rosemary Nicolson Samios and supplied by Lochcarron.

**KiltFitz** · 3rd February 16, 07:44 PM

On their most recent trade price list, it is among a range of tartans which carry a royalty surcharge. Most of them aren't on that list either I believe,

**KiltFitz** · 3rd February 16, 08:17 PM

Originally Posted by Barb T

I thought that Lochcarron was the only authorized weaver of IoS?? The Register says that it owned by Mrs Rosemary Nicolson Samios and supplied by Lochcarron.

It does say that but I'm not sure how up to date that excerpt is and also it doesn't actually say Lochcarron is the only weaver. I can see how one might make that assumption however.

See Scotweb's page for instance: MARTO is their code for MM. It is available in all weights they produce and PV too.

https://www.scotweb.co.uk/tartan/Isle-of-Skye-/49624

**Steve Ashton** · 3rd February 16, 10:49 PM

The Isle of Skye Tartan is copyrighted to the designer, and she gets a royalty on every yard woven. Marton Mills does indeed weave IOS in every weight they produce. I have the IOS in P/V as one of the Tartans in my rental fleet and have made many kilts from MM IOS.