What's the difference?

[The Wizard of BC]

If you want to do a Great Kilt for a Ren Faire may I suggest you look for a Tartan bed blanket. Not a light weight picnic blanket but one for on your bed in the winter.

You can often find them at swap meets and second hand stores.

Look for one about double or full size. A single size is too small and a Queen size is too large. If you can find one in boiled wool all the better.

I have one that I use during my history of the kilt lectures. It is a pretty good representation of a Brat. Shows how you can wrap up in it at night, keep warm out in the fields, and most importantly is incredibly easy and fast to put on. You don't lie down, you pull it over your head and take your belt from your leine and put it on outside the blanket.

Once I quite worrying about trying to create a modern looking kilt from it. I have found it is perhaps one of the most versatile garments.