Exploring Total Border

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I consider myself lucky to have "advanced" to being able to distinguish pleating to the sett from to the stripe/military, and from box pleating, and confessing that I'm totally at the mercy of whomever is sewing my kilt to advise me which i should choose for any given tartan.

However, I DID learn, while touring the Lochcarraon Mill in summer 2023 that the need for skill in tartan production is no less important than the need for patience. Near the end of our tour we were shown the "Oops" room (I don't think they called it that), in which a VERY friendly matron was happily repairing a freshly woven (I think 30 meter) bolt of cloth that suffered from a single-thread repeating error. My eyes would have requested a week off from work by the time she finished a single iteration of her task!