New Texas Tartan

[M. A. C. Newsome]

Back to the Texas Lone Star tartan, here is a photo of the actual tartan from the Things Celtic web site.


What is interesting to me is that the web site states specifically that this is 13 oz wool, woven by House of Edgar. But from the photo you can clearly see that this cloth has a tuck selvage (and a rather obvious one, at that). House of Edgar's looms have been specially refitted so as to weave cloth with a traditional woven selvage. In fact they take great pride in this aspect of their cloth. While some of their cloth, notably their less expensive Nevis range of heavy weight, is woven double width with a tuck selvage, all of their 13 oz cloth to my knowledge is woven single width with a true selvage.

Yet here we have 13 oz with a tuck selvage, supposedly woven by House of Edgar. I'm left just a bit confused, but there you go.