McBain and State of Michigan tartans in synthetic?

[MichiganKyle]

My observation; igniting a single white thread it caught fire and burned like a fuse with no dripping or residue other than some ash and a very small small boule approx. one and a half times larger then the original dia. at the end which left black ash. But I’m not sure what all that means.

According to this post (whole thread's really quite interesting):

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...033#post383033

...that sounds about right to me. But I am no textile expert by any means.

[Me cousin Jack]

According to this post (whole thread's really quite interesting):

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...033#post383033

...that sounds about right to me. But I am no textile expert by any means.

Excelent, when I return home I’ll repeat and report given these guide lines. Thanks for posting that.

[Me cousin Jack]

It burns yellow and very sooty, and forms a globule as it burn, and to me smells like leaves vs apples. Back to guide!

[Me cousin Jack]

RAYON (Viscous)

FLAME QUALITY
fast orange flame.

ODOR
burning paper or leaves. X

ASH QUALITY
almost no ash. X

COMMENTS
ember will continue to glow after flame source removed X

FABRIC
POLYESTER

FLAME QUALITY
orange flame, sputtery X

ODOR
sweet or fruity smell

ASH QUALITY
hard shiny black bead X

COMMENTS
black smoke. X

Let the (red if I did it properly) X apply to those observed. With regard to glowing globule, I’ll check that later as the sun goes down in my part of the world.

[MichiganKyle]

So, Me Cousin Jack sent me a small chunk of the fabric he had. It looks quite nice, and appears to be this tartan:

https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/ta...tails?ref=2290

It feels pretty similar to the P/V kilt I'm wearing right now (from USA Kilts, so it's definitely P/V). I would say it has a similar soft sheen to it - laying it on top of my P/V kilt, it reflects light in exactly the same manner. It does seem to be a larger thread size than the USA Kilts kilt, and measures thicker - folding it so I'm not measuring a hem, and putting the fold within the larger part of calipers so as to get as good of a measurement of 2x thicknesses of fabric, the fabric on my USA Kilts kilt measures about 0.86mm for two thicknesses, whereas this stuff measures about 0.97mm, which seems about appropriate for the size difference in the threads. Passing my fingers over it, it has a similar sound although lower pitched, as would be expected with larger threads. By my count, it looks to be about 25 threads per centimeter. Sett size of about 152mm or pretty well exactly 6". Me Cousin Jack already did burn tests on this. By my uneducated eyes, I'd think this looks an awful lot like P/V, but just heavier. Anyone with more in-depth materials knowledge on this care to chime in? Anything else we could do to confirm this?

[OC Richard]

RAYON (Viscous)

The only one I've seen offer Viscous kilts is J Higgins

https://www.jhiggins.net/j-higgins-v...scous-tartans/

[MichiganKyle]

I just wanted to bring this back up with an update. Looking at this again, House of Tartan now lists their McBean Modern as "Made in the UK":

https://houseoftartan.co.uk/scottish...ubcatid=170393

Still no idea what mill it's from, but I found that rather interesting.