Interesting weaving issue

**Barb T** · 9th August 13, 01:20 PM

But Rocky's right that this doesn't solve the problem from a kiltmaker's perspective - you have to flip the tartan over to get it to match along its length, and that reverses the twill line. But rotating alone won't reverse the twill line.

**RockyR** · 11th August 13, 08:33 AM

Originally Posted by Barb T

But Rocky's right that this doesn't solve the problem from a kiltmaker's perspective - you have to flip the tartan over to get it to match along its length, and that reverses the twill line. But rotating alone won't reverse the twill line.

That's what I was getting at.

I was speaking specifically to the example of the asymmetrical sett.

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 11th August 13, 12:14 PM

I agree with Rocky that weaving tartan this way would not help at all with the asymmetric problem. I have, over the course of my kilt making career, encountered some lengths of cloth woven this way. To my recollection, they were all older lengths, purchased off of ebay or sent to me from a client for CMT work. Never from one of the mills currently operating within Scotland which I order from.

It doesn't really affect the kilt making one bit. Just surprising if you don't know what you are looking at.

**Barb T** · 11th August 13, 12:26 PM

I ordered a piece of asymmetric tartan with a reverse in sett at the center line directly from one of the major mills in Scotland in 2000. The Lamont Heather that was the original subject of this post was custom woven last spring by Lochcarron.