Kilt with no hair canvas

[Paul Henry]

I actually find it fascinating that some kilts have survived as long as they when i get to see what has been inside them!
This is the inside of one I repaired a few years ago,after hearing how wonderful the kiltmaker was ( indeed was even told he was a master kiltmaker) I couldn't help but be curious, still I'm glad he found a use for the sack cloth, and at least there was some padding stitches

[artificer]

To give you an idea of what long term wearing of a kilt with no reinforcement in the pleats will do to it, I took this photo showing you the distortion in the pleats. This is the kilt just laying flat on my work table, relaxed.

I actually find it fascinating that some kilts have survived as long as they when i get to see what has been inside them!
This is the inside of one I repaired a few years ago,after hearing how wonderful the kiltmaker was ( indeed was even told he was a master kiltmaker) I couldn't help but be curious, still I'm glad he found a use for the sack cloth, and at least there was some padding stitches

I can sum up these two pix in one word:

YIKES!

Thanks guys, I find these forensic threads immensely fascinating.

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[bonnie heather]

That's so strange! It's hard to imagine that anyone would forget or neglect to put in the back canvas for reinforcing the pleats. Yikes!

I think it's very interesting to alter and repair kilts because when seeing what's inside a well made kilt, one can learn a lot about how to construct a kilt skillfully.
But sometimes it's quite a shock to see the opposite, as in this example. Wow!

[Barb T]

When I hear someone claim that they can make a hand sewn trad kilt in 10 hours, this is the sort of short-cut that I imagine must have to happen in order to make that possible. Although just leaving out the canvas wouldn't come close to shaving enough time off the process, I can imagine other equally hidden (and, to my mind, unacceptable) shortcuts that could add up to a significant cutting of production time.