How do you make Kilt Rosettes ?

**creagdhubh** · 16th January 13, 10:53 AM

Our own Harold Cannon would be a great resource for making rosettes for the kilt panel, as well.

Cheers,

**Thomas H** · 16th January 13, 10:59 AM

Originally Posted by creagdhubh

Our own Harold Cannon would be a great resource for making rosettes for the kilt panel, as well.

Cheers,

I agree and I have asked him .

**David** · 16th January 13, 01:01 PM

Interesting, I have never seen these worn before, only military ones

**Glen** · 16th January 13, 01:22 PM

Originally Posted by David

Interesting, I have never seen these worn before, only military ones

Rosettes seamed to be popular in the '60s.

**creagdhubh** · 16th January 13, 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by Glen

Rosettes seamed to be popular in the '60s.

The Alexander Brothers, love them!

**Harold Cannon** · 16th January 13, 02:35 PM

I have a set I need to make for my MacMillan Hunting kilt. I will try to take pics through the process. I have just been a little swamped lately.

**Thomas H** · 16th January 13, 02:37 PM

Originally Posted by Harold Cannon

I have a set I need to make for my MacMillan Hunting kilt. I will try to take pics through the process. I have just been a little swamped lately.

Awesome thank you I will look forward to seeing the post

**David** · 18th January 13, 11:26 AM

Originally Posted by Glen

Rosettes seamed to be popular in the '60s.

I was brought up in "Swinging London" during the sixties. Kilts there then were strictly White Heather Club and the BBC Hogmanay Special

**Glen** · 18th January 13, 12:45 PM

Originally Posted by David

I was brought up in "Swinging London" during the sixties. Kilts there then were strictly White Heather Club and the BBC Hogmanay Special

A lot of the performers from the early and mid sixties are shown in kilts with rosettes.

I like them as my first experience was in a military highland unit, as well, my grandfather who served in the same unit and still has his kilt wore them on it. Looks proper to me...

**OC Richard** · 27th January 13, 07:46 AM

If you look all the vintage photos I've posted over the years here you'll see that rosettes used to be quite common.

In the military, some regiments wore rosettes, other bows.

The pipers of the Scots Guards still wear rosettes, as do the pipers of the Royal Highland Fusiliers.

About bows, The Black Watch wore them, all Sergeants and Officers, and these bows have been perpetuated by the current Royal Regiment of Scotland. So, currently all Scottish infantry Sergeants and Officers wear these.

Here's a closeup of a Black Watch kilt showing the bows (which the regiment called "rosettes"). Note the bows are made from grass-green ribbon, the same colour as the binding on all military kilts

Here they are as worn by the current Army

Back around 1980 I made a pair of these bows for my Gordon kilt... of course military Gordon Highlanders kilts wouldn't have them

The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders wore this quite complex panel; note the bows mounted on rosettes, on the panel and on one of the pleats in the rear

What's strange is how these Argyll-style panels sometimes show up in other circumstances, as on this Royal Stewart kilt being worn by a Scottish Police Pipe band's Pipe Major

and oddly on a Cameron of Erracht kilt being sold on Ebay! The Cameron Highlanders, as far as I know, never wore such

Now here are rosettes on a Black Watch kilt; the Black Watch themselves never wore such, I don't think, so this is a civilian or perhaps a militia kilt