Tartan of the Month - July. What do you see?

**AKScott** · 26th July 11, 05:24 PM

Peter,

I enjoy these threads rather much, but admit I am woefully illequipped to offer even the least bit of an educated guess about identifying any of them.

Can anyone make herringbone selvedge anymore, or is it among the lost arts?

**figheadair** · 26th July 11, 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by AKScott

Peter,

I enjoy these threads rather much, but admit I am woefully illequipped to offer even the least bit of an educated guess about identifying any of them.

Can anyone make herringbone selvedge anymore, or is it among the lost arts?

I generally weave my cloth with a herringbone selvedge. Here's an example.

Commercial it can be done and in fact I've been involved with getting some done for a client recently. The difficulty is that the 'Trade' don't understand the process nowadays and so I have to lay out the warping and threading instructions for them including offsetting the sett in order to fit it to the loom.

All things are possible, there's just a premium to the cost and will depend on the technical difficulty and the quantity ordered.

**Grae** · 27th July 11, 12:01 AM

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**Morris at Heathfield** · 27th July 11, 10:44 AM

I probably never would have guessed the clan. The only ones I could think of that remained were MacFadyan and MacGillivray, as the Macquarrie tartan I'm familiar with is so different. However, I was pretty close to guessing Mull as the location, although I suppose we don't really know where it came from before it ended up in the HSL collection.

So I decided to try guessing this one instead:

Originally Posted by figheadair

Is it " Unnamed C18th - S.Uist"?

**figheadair** · 27th July 11, 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by Morris at Heathfield

I probably never would have guessed the clan. The only ones I could think of that remained were MacFadyan and MacGillivray, as the Macquarrie tartan I'm familiar with is so different. However, I was pretty close to guessing Mull as the location, although I suppose we don't really know where it came from before it ended up in the HSL collection.

So I decided to try guessing this one instead:

Is it " Unnamed C18th - S.Uist"?

Not that I was asking but it is indeed. It's my favourite kilt - unlined 5 yds box-knife.