I got that phone call from the man in the kilt shop this morning. Just four weeks from placing my order the Jonesing was over and so I went into TD9 Tartans this afternoon to collect my new kilt.

Fraser Hunting Muted, 8 yards of 13 oz weave from House of Edgar, built by the local kiltmaker, with matching flashes. This kilt commemorates my very small percentage of highland ancestry. I had one Irish grandparent and three Scottish ones, all from Paisley weaver families who seem to have intermarried through several generations. Going back far enough I finally got to a Highland lineage, way back in my father's mother's family. William Fraser was a master shoemaker in Inverness in the late seventeen hundreds. He married Jean Henderson and one of their daughters, Margaret Fraser, born in 1800 travelled to the lowlands where she married Francis Tait, a weaver from Paisley.

The Pleats. I am not sure why the two belt loops at the back are offset towards my right hand side.