As you are in the UK you might like to look up the seller Batya_1 on eBay. Although there is a lot of waterproof Nylon in his store there are also some useful chunks of woolly cloth - though he does have the endearing habit of describing things as '100% wool blend' and the like, I have bought quite a few 10 metre lengths of what proved to be good quality material.

On one occasion I did get a damaged bolt, and it was no problem, another length arrived promptly. You are not going to get named tartans and worsted wools, but that is a good source of fabric to experiment on until you are sure of making a kilt sucessfully from what could be several hundred pounds worth of fabric. There have been bolts of polyester viscose, some of which were actual tartans, but only Royal Stuart and Black Watch as I recall.

There is useful advice and instructions on the internet, but there is noting like sitting down with a strip of cloth and actually doing the sewing to discover just how things go together and what might happen when they do.

If you are going to make a tailored kilt, with the fell sewn down, then the fabrics used internally to take the strain of the fastenings and to support the pleats will be important too - perhaps more important, as with a sturdy support lightweight fabric will make a proper kilt but wool fabric will distort if put under pressure or strain - that is why it can be pressed to shape in tailoring.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: