Somebody had to do it....

**Riverkilt** · 1st April 06, 08:19 PM

Hmmm, now I'm curious...an Ottawa Indian tartan??? :confused:

I graduated from Ottawa University, owned by the Ottawa Tribe.

Don't belong to ebay, or ever want to, so emailed through their website to see what that tartan looks like and how they size things.

Don't know if they'll sell to me outside of ebay.

I get so much ridiculous, phony, ebay spam already, and I'm not even a member, can't imagine how bad it would be if I signed up.

But, we'll see.

The 27" length is even wilder than the SWK 24"....I'm a 22 1/2 max. So no matter how cheap don't know what the point would be of buying a kilt that long and trying to find someone to shorten it without screwing it up.

Thanks for the heads up though.

Ron

**Hamish** · 2nd April 06, 04:45 AM

Originally Posted by Riverkilt

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Don't belong to ebay, or ever want to. ................................ Ron

And here's me thinking I was the only one, Ron! I did try registering once, but they did not want to know me! Besides, it seems massively complicated to me.

I guess I am old fashioned enough still to prefer dealing with people I can get to know, and to seeing what I'm buying before entering into a contract!

That's yet another facet to life that we share then, Ron ...... Bro!!

**mudd** · 2nd April 06, 05:10 PM

Originally Posted by Hamish

That's yet another facet to life that we share then, Ron ...... Bro!!

Then, that makes three of us.

**cormacmacguardhe** · 2nd April 06, 05:42 PM

Originally Posted by Hamish

That's yet another facet to life that we share then, Ron ...... Bro!!

likewise with me. much too involved and too many hoops to jump through. I dislike hoops.

**Livingston** · 2nd April 06, 06:04 PM

ebay?? What's that?

**Pleater** · 2nd April 06, 06:26 PM

Originally Posted by Livingston

ebay?? What's that?

A nasty place - you really don't want to go there - they offer you bolts of wool fabric so cheaply you just have to buy it and spend your whole life sewing it into kllts, in between checking on what is for sale that day.

There is even a search facility so 'Fabric Wool Tartan' can be looked for - it is sometimes a real tartan - you must take the description with a pinch of salt on some of these sales.

There is one seller who turns up quite regularly describing the fabric as a '100 percent wool mixture'.

Sure, x percent wool y percent something else where x plus y equals 100, a perfectly truthful description.

I have bought quite a few pieces of cloth from various sellers and it has always been for far less that I could have bought the equivalent quality from a shop, even including the postage.

It is addictive though. I have cloth stack up dangerously high and it is arriving faster than it can be cut and sewn together.

**UmAnOnion** · 2nd April 06, 07:09 PM

Originally Posted by Pleater

A nasty place - you really don't want to go there - they offer you bolts of wool fabric so cheaply you just have to buy it and spend your whole life sewing it into kllts, in between checking on what is for sale that day.

There is even a search facility so 'Fabric Wool Tartan' can be looked for - it is sometimes a real tartan - you must take the description with a pinch of salt on some of these sales.

There is one seller who turns up quite regularly describing the fabric as a '100 percent wool mixture'.

Sure, x percent wool y percent something else where x plus y equals 100, a perfectly truthful description.

I have bought quite a few pieces of cloth from various sellers and it has always been for far less that I could have bought the equivalent quality from a shop, even including the postage.

It is addictive though. I have cloth stack up dangerously high and it is arriving faster than it can be cut and sewn together.

pleator, if that stack of fabric ever gets to be too much for you i woudl gladly provide it a nice safe warm comfortable home here in NJ... might even treat some of it to a bit of acupuncture & steam tretatments, while lovingly massaging it intoits true calling - kilts and similar garb...

**Reggie** · 2nd April 06, 07:42 PM

I've bought alot of things on E-bay with absolutely no problems. If it was difficult or complicated, I wouldn't be able to do it. One of my favorite kilt pins came from a company on E-bay, at a very good price.

Reggie