Thanks! I am a loooong way from weaving a tartan useable for a kilt....it just interests me for down the road. Although it occurs to me to try a duplication of the Prince Charlie tartan from a couple threads down...it appears to be basically the red, black check fashion plaid so common, but with three extra lines...might try that as an early project.
I have woven on inkle (that was boring) and tablet looms...built my own crescent moon tablet loom, and was weaving badge lanyards for folks at work. My daughter's bird ate the top out of my tablets, and life got difficult about then...so it has been sitting for a bit.
Kiltie/reenactor fellow at work has a Harrisville loom, and he does not weave anymore....so he is thinking about what he wants for his loom....I am studying Andreas Moeller's loom design, the Flying 8....It is a concept that fascinates me, as I am a huge fan of appropriate technology which can work in any economy in the world, scalable, portable, and accessible in any economic class. He has successfully bumped handweaving industries in Ethiopia up by decades by introducing the technology there.
I have significant abilities at carpentry and rigging, so I may have a go at building it.
I ordered the plans regardless.
One of the ladies in my life is an inveterate knitter, and the other is (my life is complicated in some ways...fun tho.) interested in weaving to the point of having taken several classes....she is a director at a local university, so she has a smorgasbord of things to choose from to study....she has done some beautiful weavings. We all like to craft and sew together, and the common theme is renfaire and SCA garb.