true tartan hose (not diced+lines)

[creagdhubh]

Which makes me wonder: does anyone knit hose of this complexity nowadays?

BTW I looked through a handful of vintage Highland Dress catalogues from the 1920s through 1950s and all the "tartan" hose they show are the familiar diced+single lines type.

Richard,

You can ask Kinloch-Anderson or Kenneth Short Hosiery (maybe House of Cheviot - not completely sure about them, as they make the machine made diced and tartan hose) - those are good firms that I am aware of.

You really are quite fond of MacLeay's, The Highlanders of Scotland, which is wonderful, as I typically thumb through my own Delia Miller (Haggerston Press) copy almost on a daily basis and have read the passages by Miller, as well as MacGregor, over and over. Superb new topic.

Cheers,