Found a kilt shop...well...sort off.

[Robin]

Yeah!

They're just a very nice elderly couple...devoted Scotland lovers with a customer friendly attitude (very rare these days).

I spent 20 minutes finding the right PC...followed by 2 hours chit chat while seated on a cardboard box filled with kilts for a pipeband.

[Valencian Kilted]

Heya Robin, good to know there's other kilt manufacturers outside UK and USA, thanks to ur advice and my constance, I found someway at an "official" site the right version of my homeland tartan (http://www.tartansauthority.com/web/...artan=Valencia) , and I woukld like in a future to make it real in some way, although my incomings are quite limited compared with those from other sides of Europe! lol. As a Nederlander u must know the difference between the wages at Netherlands and Spain, so, u'll understand why I'm worried about that!.

Anyway, my question is about ur new discovered kiltmaker... can u share with us more or less the cost of a tailored kilt there? (in €, u know). maybe it will be cheaper than trying to import it from overseas!

Thanks in advance for ur past and future help!

Saludos!

T O N O

[Sherry]

How nice that you could find a jacket that fits you before you paid for it, Robin. And it was a bit of an adventure, too!

Tono, welcome to the board. You must write an intro for yourself. We're happy to have you.

Sherry

[Robin]

@ Valencian Kilted...

They're not kiltmakers themselves...they order their kilts in Scotland (Lochcarron again).

A Lochcarron made 8 yards 16oz (Strome) 100% hand made will cost €400.
That's a lot of money, but much "cheaper" as most online traders.

My Prince Charlie (+waistcoat) was €259....seen the same jacket for £295 (about €430!!!!) online.



Lesson: Compare the price with other traders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

About the Valencia tartan...I checked many online shops, but so far I didn't find any who has it in their range.

At first we must find a weaver who has it....maybe a wise man like Hamish can help...He's the God of Kilts (sorry for the blasphemy Prester John )

Willing to help, but I don't really know how :-(

[switchblade5984]

Yeah!

They're just a very nice elderly couple...devoted Scotland lovers with a customer friendly attitude (very rare these days).

I spent 20 minutes finding the right PC...followed by 2 hours chit chat while seated on a cardboard box filled with kilts for a pipeband.

lol thats great! congrats on the find!

[Sherry]

Do we get to see pics?

Sherry

[Robin]

Of course!

When I get my 1st kilt....

[Robin]

Valencia Kilted....this is the weaver Weaver

And it seems Matt Newsome can make your kilt :mrgreen:

[Valencian Kilted]

Well ,first of all, I agree in that the first thing I should do is presenting myself and let u know who I am! My name is José Antonio Sánchez (Tono Sánchez), and I'm a 32 years old spanish from the mediterranean coast of Valencia. As far as I am a full mediterranean I'm not related at all with the celtic traditions, history, etc,... even the celtic area of Spain is just 1000 kms. far from my home, so it's very strange for me that many things that make me feel good are related to that culture and traditions (pipes music, kilt, scottish gals,...) I know that for many of you the expression "celtic" is not really proper,(surely rangers supporters, !) but from the spanish point of view, as far as I should be considered an Iberian mixed with hundreds of other influences, that is the best way to call them.

Anyway, as far as I remember I felt attracted by all that world, even against my family tastes (they prefer the spanish flamenco much more than a pipe sound) or my cultural surround (Moors and Christians feasts and Fallas parties) but the fact is that, and I cannot make anything against it! who knows, if I were hindi or buddist I would think about a past life! , but I am Roman Catholic, so that's not really on my mind at all!

I travelled to Glasgow last easter in order to make eal my dream of being in Scotland for once, and I'll try to go back next easter again. I bought there a 4 yard 8 oz. knife pleated black patterned kilt (surely machine stitched) for me, from James pringle Weavers manufacture, and a royal Stuart, quite better quality, but on sale, for my brother, each one costed me over 90 pounds, that can be more or less 120 €. Although mine is not a wonder, it was enough to make me wear it for the first time to come back home, at the airport, surrounded by some hundreds of Scottish football supporters coming back from a match in Italy. I went back to spain kilted, and since then I wear my kilt a few times, as it's my only one, and I don't want to make it get badly too soon,... even being not the best of all, it's my first and only kilt!.

I entered this site looking for info on the net about the chance to know if there was a suitable tartan for me, as I am not related to any scottish name, surname or district at all, (obviously, mediterranean culture is not as much related with that of the highlands at all!) and at last, thx to Robin I get on a way to find a nice one, that you all can see as my avatar, and is registered at the scottish tartans authority as the "Valencia" tartan, and designed by a valencian girl.

Now, my next challenge will be to decide if I spend the money I would need for a new 8-yard kilt also knife pleated, with my "colours". Considering the price of the fabric (at least medium weight woollen tartan) with the transport and the tailoring costs, totally it would represent more or less the amount of my monthly net income.

As I'm still paying my car and flat,... it's a difficult decission don't u think?

Anyway, I'll try to make it real soon or later! Maybe M.A.C. Newsome would teach me how to sew it at my stops at different hotels all around Spain!(I work as a salesman, always driving from town to town)

Well, enough for 2day!
have luck u all over there!

Tono

[sav]

Tono,
Bienvenidos! How exciting that our board has members from the far reaches of the globe... As for the Valencia Tartan: one of the most beautiful I've seen. It's on my wishlist. (as is a visit to Valencia!)