USA Kilts Closing...

[Schultz]

The next big fight... Kelly and I deciding what we'll get first!

First and foremost, more tartan choices!!!!

[646guy]

Is it just me or is the "Casual Tartan Gallery" on the USA Kilts site not working for anyone else

[auld argonian]

I tried it yesterday and got some internet letter-salad instead of images.

AA

[billmcc]

We're back and WOW do we have a LOAD of info!

Rocky,

Did you find a source for heavyweight pv material?

[RockyR]

tartan choices... HAHAHAHA. We got a New tartan swatch book from MM, 1 from Strathmore, 1 from a WELSH tartan company and ordered 6 from HOE. Choices?!?! Choices we gots...

The Casual and Semi Trad pics are down... Hank is on it. We had a few that weren't on the site that he's going to add. Should be fixed soon.

YES, we FOUND a source for 16 oz PV. We WON'T be using it. I got the swatches in the mail today. They are NOWHERE NEAR the quality we're aiming for and people have come to expect from us. In the past (1.5 years ago), we made a conscious decision to really "Step up" our cloth choices. We've been "weeding out" the poorer quality materials we have and going forward, will only buy PV and materials we deem "high quality" for our casual and Semi Trad kilts. The 16 oz PV we got in the mail was a Pakistani source (where, to my knowledge, ALL of the 16 oz PV is made). It was not teflon coated and had a strange feel to it. It was loosely woven (compared to MM PV) and didn't look like it would hold up well to repeated washings.

[Kilted Taper]

tartan choices... HAHAHAHA. We got a New tartan swatch book from...1 from a WELSH tartan company

Now that's music to my ears! We need more Welsh Tartans!

[RockyR]

Welsh Tartans Available (woven BY Welsh people in WALES):

St David's National tartan of Wales
Powys
Pride of Wales
Jones
Davies/davis
Williams
Evans/Bevan
Eynon/Beynon
Edwards
Ellis
Griffiths
Harry/Harris/Parry
Hopkins
Howell/Powell
Hughes/Pugh
James
Jenkins
Lewis
Llewellyn
Lloyd
Meredith
Morgan
Morris
Owen/Bowen
Phillips
Pope
Protheroe
Rees/Preece
Rice/Price
Richards/Pritchard
Roberts/Probert
Rosser/Prosser
Thomas
Vaughan
Watkins/Walters
Wynn/Gwynn

The only problem with them (as told to me by the owner of the company)... they're expensive (my cost... puts them at the "higher end" of our wool kilt prices) and they do NOT come with a kilting selvedge edge. They must be hemmed.

If you have any ones you particularly want, let me know (don't think I don't see the "edwards of wales" on your "want" list in your sig)!

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

Din, ding, ding! We have a winner, a Davis here!

[Kilted Taper]

Def. the Edwards!
You've got a PM, Rocky.

[auld argonian]

So we're all waiting to see what goodies will come....update the website asap, eh?

And I have an Evans buddy who I'm slowly converting to the kilt and a friend's wife who's a Davies...will the Welsh stuff be availble in the ladies line as well?

Good call on the 16oz PV...if it's nae Scots, it's...well, we all know the rest of that...but glad that you take this so seriously that you'd reject any fabric that wasn't up to snuff.

Best

AA