MacDonald of Glenaladale - reweave of the original setting

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Peter - Looks like a fascinating project and the culmination of decades of scholarship by you! I wish you best of luck with the re-weave and perhaps some photos of the finished product! I realize this cloth will be used for kilts for you and your son, but how will you treat the cloth when the re-weave is complete? "In the grease"? Or washed and finished as a "soft" tartan?

Thanks Gerry. Clan Donald is blessed with a number of 18th century tartans, most of them unknown or incorrectly woven today, this one included. It's taken a while to settle on which one to weave but the story behind this sett has always drawn me and the fact that my boy loves red settled it. I have never washed a piece of cloth in my life. That's the benefit of a good worsted yarn, the cloth is made in the weaving. All I will do is give it a light steam press and then off the the kilt maker.

Not sure who's going to make my son's kilt, it will probably be 6-7 yd knife pleat. For mine on the other hand I'm working out who to get to copy a 5yd box-knife I have which was made by Bob Martin. No-one I know of over here is interested or capable in the challenge. Sad, but they seem to be stuck in the 'a kilt has 8 yds mindser'.