Quote Originally Posted by Troglodyte View Post
I have a sample swatch of Lochcarron Strome single width kilting from 15 or so years ago, and, as chance would have it, I find myself potentially in the market for buying a kilt length. This old swatch seems to be a superior material to the current standard double-width Strome, hence my interest.

My enquiries to Lochcarron have been met with very helpful responses from Lochcarron, with the offer of weaving a superb-sounding cloth with a herring-bone selvedge, as mentioned in the previous post.

As always, there is a downside - cost..! I would need to commission a 60metre length at £88 per metre - which would make for a very expensive kilt, and rather a lot of left-over material.

I guess what I need is to find a jobbing weaver whose operational methods would make weaving a kilt length worth their while - anyone have any reccommendations..?
- or maybe you could find enough other people that would buy the cloth you don’t want. ( I did that years ago, when I needed to order a minimum of 30 meters).