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.