the most faded kilt ever??

[OC Richard]

Take a gander at this kilt from Ebay.

I've seen loads of 30 year old very faded band kilts around here, much discoloured by decades in the California sun. (A band here bought lovely British Columbia kilts back in the 80s, the vivid red of which has faded to a dingy pink.)

But this one has to take the cake!

Look how the MacKenzie Seaforth tartan is recognisable at the top, but at the bottom is so faded as to become an entirely different tartan



Do any of you have photos to share of very faded kilts?

[Thomas H]

I like the way the bottom looks ,if it all looked that way.

I wonder is there a way to fade a kilt with out damaging it ,and makeing it
look the same all the way through. ie... Moderon to wheathered

[madmacs]

I like the way the bottom looks ,if it all looked that way.

I wonder is there a way to fade a kilt with out damaging it ,and makeing it
look the same all the way through. ie... Moderon to wheathered

A UV lamp and time might work... No guarantees what you might end up with fromodern dyes though...

I beleive Matt once posted a faded one with the modern colours still showing in the pleats that looked nice...

[madmacs]

Take a gander at this kilt from Ebay.

I've seen loads of 30 year old very faded band kilts around here, much discoloured by decades in the California sun. (A band here bought lovely British Columbia kilts back in the 80s, the vivid red of which has faded to a dingy pink.)

But this one has to take the cake!

Look how the MacKenzie Seaforth tartan is recognisable at the top, but at the bottom is so faded as to become an entirely different tartan



Do any of you have photos to share of very faded kilts?

That does a very good job of convincing me that the weathered maclean hunting by locharron is accurate...

[M. A. C. Newsome]

That is beautiful, I have seen Black Watch kilts faded in a similar way, as well.

A while back I had the privileged of doing some repair work on a very old Kennedy kilt for a client. The outside was uniformly faded, but inside the pleats the tartan was still the dark, original colors. I took some photos because I felt it showed well the inspiration for the "ancient" color scheme.

Here are the pleats in the back:


Looking inside the pleats:



Showing the inside apron:


Contrasting the outer and inner aprons:


Modern day "modern" and "ancient" Kennedy tartans.

[Tobus]

That does a very good job of convincing me that the weathered maclean hunting by locharron is accurate...

Heh, I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps the weathered (or "reproduction") colours are pretty accurate after all! Some people, like myself, pay good money to order custom weave tartans for precisely that look, although we like it to be uniform across the whole kilt.

I'm curious about the strap on the kilt, though. Looks like it's installed backwards? The billet end points to the front of the kilt, which I assume would mean that the buckle is on the tab attached to the apron. I've never seen that before.

[Blubbi]

Thank you Matthew for the photos. Wearing the kilt any time at any occasion will be the best way to get this beautful weathered colours. Very interesting the dark original pattern in the pleats and inner apron. I hope my favorit kilt will get this look in following years. So wearing, wearing, w......

[creagdhubh]

Heh, I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps the weathered (or "reproduction") colours are pretty accurate after all! Some people, like myself, pay good money to order custom weave tartans for precisely that look, although we like it to be uniform across the whole kilt.

Precisely! I am looking forward to my next kilt, a Barb Tewksbury 8 yarder, knife pleated to the line, in Dalgliesh's heavyweight Macpherson Reproduction (weathered) colours! Jonesing big time!

Cheers,

[Tobus]

Precisely! I am looking forward to my next kilt, a Barb Tewksbury 8 yarder, knife pleated to the line, in Dalgliesh's heavyweight Macpherson Reproduction (weathered) colours! Jonesing big time!

Cheers,

Yes, Kyle, me too (though mine is reproduction Colquhoun, plus a lot of extra yardage). I think you and I are two of the people who ordered reproduction tartan kilts from her at about the same time, and will be amongst the first to take advantage of DC Dalgliesh's new line of standard double-width cloth in this colour scheme. I've been taking daily anti-Jonesing pills in an attempt to stave off this dreaded symptom.

No offense, my friend, but I'm hoping mine comes before yours does!

[BCAC]

........I'm curious about the strap on the kilt, though. Looks like it's installed backwards? The billet end points to the front of the kilt, which I assume would mean that the buckle is on the tab attached to the apron. I've never seen that before.

It must use the old "belt" fastening where you have a belt (and not a strap) sewn on the under apron which then goes through the normal "buttonhole" on the left side of the kilt all around the outside of the back of the kilt and then through a buckle on the right hip finishing, like this one, with the belt "pointing" forwards. It's an old system, not used very much nowadays.