show us your Cornish kilts & accessories

[Robert Soderman]

my kilt is from the Cornish Hunting tartan. I will have to get a picture to post up here. I sadly dnt have many pictures to post. It seems that I tend not to remember to take pictures when I am out and about. I also have a nice set of cornish inspired cufflinks.

My family were miners too. They moved to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and even had a town named after my great grandfather.

Hi Spartan-new here and I was very courious about your post because I live in Upper Michigan. My great grandmother (Harriette Kelly) and great-great grandmother (Emma Solomon)were both from Cornwall. My great grandmother Harriette parent's were married in Menheniot, Cornwall. Both married Broemer men and they settled here in the U. P. First in the Houghton/Hancock area and then Ontonagon, and finally here in the Ironwood/Bessemer area. We don't have a town named after us but we do have a road outside of Houghton and my great grandfather started the fire department in that area. I was wondering if there was connection somewhere.
The Cornish hunting kilt is on my list to own but I think I'm going to have to get use to the Cornish National. Bit too much yellow for me.

[OC Richard]

Hello fellow Cornish-Americans!

I've been working on creating Cornish tartan which is softer, nicer in my opinion than what's currently available.

This is one I just came up with. I like the "windowpane tweed" aspect of it. My entire goal is to make something more clothlike, more tartanlike, and looking less diagrammatic, which is difficult to do given the (to me) sine qua non of Cornish tartan design, the St Piran flag and the gold & black bezant shield.

[Spartan Tartan]

OC,

That is certainly an attractive tartan. Are you planning to have it woven at some point when yu finalize the design?

[creagdhubh]

Fantastic photos, Trefor!

Cheers,

[OC Richard]

OC,

That is certainly an attractive tartan. Are you planning to have it woven at some point when yu finalize the design?

Thanks! I do really like that one better than the 20 other Cornish tartan concepts I've made. Well, I'll let it "stew" for a while and come back to it, and if I still like it as much I might have it woven.

[Piipriker]

Thanks! I do really like that one better than the 20 other Cornish tartan concepts I've made. Well, I'll let it "stew" for a while and come back to it, and if I still like it as much I might have it woven.

stewing is a good idea, as I know from experience, though this is the best until now.

[CMcG]

This is one I just came up with. I like the "windowpane tweed" aspect of it. My entire goal is to make something more clothlike, more tartanlike, and looking less digrammatic, which is difficult to do given the (to me) sine qua non of Cornish tartan design, the St Piran flag and the gold & black bezant shield.

I do really like that one better than the 20 other Cornish tartan concepts I've made. Well, I'll let it "stew" for a while and come back to it, and if I still like it as much I might have it woven.

This is definitely the best one you've shown us so far, though you are right to stew for a while first.

[pugcasso]

Hellow fellow Cornish-Americans!

I've been working on creating Cornish tartan which is softer, nicer in my opinion than what's currently available.

This is one I just came up with. I like the "windowpane tweed" aspect of it. My entire goal is to make something more clothlike, more tartanlike, and looking less digrammatic, which is difficult to do given the (to me) sine qua non of Cornish tartan design, the St Piran flag and the gold & black bezant shield.

That tartan is really nice

[crash]

I agree that is a really nice tartan. I might have to get a kilt made of that. After all my wife is from Cornwall.....Ontario.lol

[Spartan Tartan]

yodofizzy,

OC will certainly correct me if I am wrong, but you are correct that those are NOT the "typical" highland bagpipes. Those are Cornish Double Pipes.