Quote Originally Posted by David Thorpe View Post
Vogue Fabrics online has Tailor's Pride hair canvas for around $9 US/yard. Got it within a week of my online order.

Looking forward to seeing the finished product. I have a USA Semi-trad in MacNaughten Muted, my wife's clan tartan. It gets lots of raves. Like to see how it compares to the Ancient.
The Marton Mills PV muted MacNaughton is a very small sett. Actually, that's not true, because if you look closely at the sett, you'll discover that it's not based around the thin stripes. You must proceed through two of those to find the axis where the sett repeats. So the sett is actually twice as big as it seems.

On this stuff from Fraser and Kirkbright, the "apparent" sett....meaning the space between the thin stripes is fairly large, like the size of a "normal" sett. So the actual sett is HUGE....like 10 inches. That precluded me from pleating the kilt to sett, though I could have cleverly pleated it to half-sett and working in the reversal of the stripes. That would have required rather more cleverness than I'm capable of so I pleated to stripe, half-sett. This works out just fine and I think it looks look....looks like a regimental kilt. It also means that I have a bit left over, perhaps the Luminous Joan will get a skirt (ha! fat chance) or someday I'll make myself a vest or something.

The Ancient color scheme is rather more orange, as opposed to the brick red of the muted, and the "true" red of the modern.

I will be making a 6-yard PV MacNaughton kilt, probably late this winter, as my current one has shrunk...ha!.... and I want one to throw in, for next summers Scotland trip.