How do you make Kilt Rosettes ?

[TheOfficialBren]

What is the purpose of rosettes? I have, also, only seen them on military kilts...usually old ones, I might add.

[Downunder Kilt]

I have searched the Forum , Alot of pictures but I have not found
A DIY how to make Rosettes.

Can some one please show me how to make the Kilt ribbon style Rosettes.



Picture was from the J Byous web site

Here is an old thread by a member who made some for his kilt
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...osettes-62744/

And here is a old thread discussing rosettes and bow on kilts
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...osettes-58086/

And to another forum which had a big discussion several years ago
http://forums.bobdunsire.com/forums/...ad.php?t=82355

[TheOfficialBren]

Good stuff, Downunder Kilt.

[Thomas H]

What is the purpose of rosettes? I have, also, only seen them on military kilts...usually old ones, I might add.

To me they look Awesome , and I dont see them alot in the south yet so I wanted to add them to my kilt .

[Thomas H]

Here is an old thread by a member who made some for his kilt
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...osettes-62744/

And here is a old thread discussing rosettes and bow on kilts
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...osettes-58086/

And to another forum which had a big discussion several years ago
http://forums.bobdunsire.com/forums/...ad.php?t=82355

I seen these but they dont have any step by step pictures to them - But the link from
USONIAN does have the step by step I was looking for .

[David]

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]

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]

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

[creagdhubh]

Fantastic photos, Richard. I have always liked the rather unique style and look of the kilt panel and rosettes of the Argyll's.

Cheers,