Non-descript tartan, made in Italy!

**Woodsheal** · 21st July 11, 01:26 PM

Just ordered 4.5 yards of this 100% wool tartan for use as a belted plaid ("great kilt"). It's listed as "coating weight" so it should have a decent heft. Nice earthy color, and the price is right!

http://www.fashionfabricsclub.com/ca...spx?ItmID=2995

**Dale Seago** · 21st July 11, 05:31 PM

I really like that -- very nice, and the price is indeed right!

**Tartan Hiker** · 26th July 11, 04:43 PM

Please give us a review when it arrives! Looks like great material for a cold-weather hiking kilt, and I love the colors, too.

**madmacs** · 26th July 11, 06:27 PM

This one looks nice too...

http://www.fashionfabricsclub.com/ca...spx?ItmID=4235

Or maybe this

http://www.fashionfabricsclub.com/ca...x?ItmID=KKK668

**Mickey** · 26th July 11, 08:00 PM

Nice score! Thanks for the info too. Good deals on a lot of fabrics.

**English Bloke** · 26th July 11, 10:28 PM

I like the sales pitch of putting the inch-tape up against it. I wish more sellers would do that. Let us know how it turns out.

**Baldybrown** · 14th August 11, 10:24 AM

I'd love to see the belted plaid on. How about a pic? Also, is 4 1/2 yds enough? I've seen pics where they had 8 yds of the stuff. What's the rule of thumb for a great kilt?

**Tartan Hiker** · 26th August 11, 08:27 PM

Originally Posted by Baldybrown

I'd love to see the belted plaid on. How about a pic? Also, is 4 1/2 yds enough? I've seen pics where they had 8 yds of the stuff. What's the rule of thumb for a great kilt?

The confusion lies with the folks who forget that back in the days before automated looms cloth was only 20-25" wide. A six to eight yard piece that wide (what we call "single width") would be cut in half and joined side-to-side, making a piece 3-4 yards long and 40-50 inches wide (essentially "double width"). This is what was used for a "great kilt". Folks wanting to recreate the great kilt in modern times went to the fabric store, bought 8 yards of double width fabric, which is the typical width of commercial fabric today, and tried to wear this huge mass of cloth, marveling at the stamina of their forebears and coming up with all manner of elaborate, and historically inaccurate, wrapping techniques in order to keep this huge hunk of cloth under some semblance of control.

**mookien** · 14th August 11, 11:00 AM

In case some of you folks have been borderline on this cloth, it is now on sale (double sale, I guess) for $7 per yard until 8/22. Get it while it's hot!