Length of material for a great kilt?

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Like Steve alluded to above, historically there is a whole lot of evidence that in the military, soliders were issued single width plaiding which was butted together to make something akin to todays double width tartan cloth. When the 77th Regiment of Foot was raised for service here in North America each solider received 12 yards of plaiding every 2 years. My feeling, and only a feeling, I cant document it, is that they were making either 1 great kilt out of 6 yards, and one kilt out of the other 6 yards.

Luke, got to disagree here, a least as far as the early Highland Regiments were concerned. Loudoun's 64th for example were issued 12 yds to make a plaid, no mention of them ever wearing a feileadh beag and even if they did, it was more likely to have been made from an old plaid and to have contained 3-4 yds not 6.