Quote Originally Posted by Pleater View Post
The knitting is all wrong - far too coarse.

It should be really really thin thread and tiny needles - or what they would have used is knitting frames, the fore runners of the domestic knitting machine we have today. Knitting was mechanised over 400 years ago, but all the refinements were to use finer yarns and more needles. The bulky/chunky machines were brought out in my lifetime.
Thanks, so that's what that woman was talking about. Since I know nothing about it, I didn't know if she was actually an expert, or just a crackpot.

About the tartans, it dawned on me that (incorrectly/anachronistically) using brown-toned tartans goes at least back to Tunes Of Glory (1960). I suppose they've long been attractive to filmmakers due to their warm elegant tones.