Old Culloden Tartan

[CMcG]

<snip>
I love working with these old traditional tartans, especially the ones based on the old blue/black/green motif (which includes all the Black Watch variations, as well as simpler tartans such as MacKay and Gunn). The reason being is that these tartans seem to be designed with making traditional box pleated kilts in mind.

...

It was a joy to mark out the pleats because I could just simply follow the lines in the tartan. It is as if the tartan is telling me how it wants to be pleated!

That sounds very organic and natural for the tartan to "speak."

I wonder if those old tartans were designed with box pleats in mind or if box pleats were the best way of using the old tartans in an early tailored kilt?

[Highlander31]

I'm glad you posted this Matt. I've been thinking about the Old Culloden tartan, but have been waiting to see a kilt or a large enough piece of the tartan (preferably a kilt) to decide if it is something I would like enough to have a kilt made out of it.

[M. A. C. Newsome]

I'm glad you posted this Matt. I've been thinking about the Old Culloden tartan, but have been waiting to see a kilt or a large enough piece of the tartan (preferably a kilt) to decide if it is something I would like enough to have a kilt made out of it.

I have photos of the kilt I just made which I can send you, but I don't want to post them in the open forum until the owner of said kilt gets a chance to debut it! :-)

[Tartan Hiker]

Is that a stock tartan somewhere or a custom run? It's gorgeous.

[Downunder Kilt]

Tartan Hiker I believe it was a custom run organised by Peter Mac at the Scottish Tartans Authority. I say this as matt refers to it as the old Culloden tartan and I remeber there being 2 threads on it in the past