Hair Canvas in the Apron of a Canvas Kilt

[Bugbear]

This is just an observation about the canvas or all cotton kilts, and I am not suggesting anyone do this to a kilt; it was an experiment. I just finished putting hair canvas in the upper part of my canvas kilt's front apron; it makes a huge difference.

I had made a change in the angle of the right hand edge of the front apron because that is one of the things that bothered me about the kilt. One of the other issues that I had with the kilt was the wrinkling and puckering of the apron when I sat down, and that had to be smoothed over when I stood back up. The pleats have to be straitened a bit when standing back up, like a pleat sweep, so not having to worry about the apron much is nice.

Since I had it partly unsewn (I had to remove the strap to move the facing hem), I decided to go for it. I happened to have the right kind of hair canvas laying around too. I did not take the whole apron apart. I do not use a sewing machine, so I wanted to undo as little stitching as possible. It was very difficult to sew the hair canvas in there without taking the waistband etc off, and I had to redo and rethink it a few times. I got the results I wanted, though.

I know a lot of mass produced kilts, made from both wool and other materials, now a days do not have any hair canvas in the aprons. I have seen first hand now that this is an important feature on a kilt.

* As a side note, there are some other things that need to be corrected on this same kilt, so the work is not finished. Also, I am calling the kilt canvas because that is what the Buzz Kidder web site calls it; it's an all cotton fabric.