I wish I was Welsh

davecolorado72 · 2nd August 06, 09:34 AM

You might have seen it already, but just in case, check out www.welsh-tartan.com. Lots of cool stuff on there.

**Hamish** · 2nd August 06, 10:57 AM

I have the St. David's tartan kilt (Brithwe Dewi Sant), complete with a dragon pin, in my Kollection:

but I think I draw the line at the ysgrepan, which looks as if it needs a haircut - the Freelander looks so much neater!

**Mark Keeney** · 13th September 06, 07:31 PM

Originally Posted by Hamish

I have the St. David's tartan kilt (Brithwe Dewi Sant), complete with a dragon pin, in my Kollection:

Ok, now I am confused. I like this kilt very much but is it really a tartan? The verticle stripes are not the same as the horizontal.

**chasem** · 13th September 06, 10:11 PM

Originally Posted by Mark Keney

Ok, now I am confused. I like this kilt very much but is it really a tartan? The verticle stripes are not the same as the horizontal.

Many Welsh tartans do not have the same thread count in the warp and weft. (ie: the lines are different vertical than they are horizontal).

**McClef** · 14th September 06, 04:48 AM

Originally Posted by Hamish

but I think I draw the line at the ysgrepan, which looks as if it needs a haircut - the Freelander looks so much neater!

Me too Ham - they look far too shaggy for my taste.

The Welsh Tartan Centre had a stand at the Royal Welsh Show in July and the chappie manning it was sporting a St Davids Tartan Cilt and a Ysgrepan.

I asked him out of curiousity if I could have a peek inside it and he duly obliged. It has a similar storage capacity to the Sporran but I just couldn't find it aesthetically pleasing and told him I still preferred my sporran (which I was of course wearing with my kilt). I think he was pleased though to see someone else actually in a kilt though.

They do offer a sporran with the Welsh Dragon embossed on it, however, and I might be tempted at some stage to obtain one, preferably along with my first Welsh Tartan Cilt!

**davedove** · 14th September 06, 05:17 AM

Originally Posted by McClef

They do offer a sporran with the Welsh Dragon embossed on it, however, and I might be tempted at some stage to obtain one, preferably along with my first Welsh Tartan Cilt!

This is the sporran I got to go with my Welsh Edwards cilt:

**McClef** · 14th September 06, 06:20 AM

Originally Posted by davedove

This is the sporran I got to go with my Welsh Edwards cilt:

And very nice it is too!

Or as we would say in Welsh - Ardderchog

**Derek** · 14th September 06, 09:06 AM

Hi McClef ... We too were at The Royal Welsh. What day did you go. We went on the Tues and apart from the guy at The Welsh Tartan Centre stand and myself, I saw no other Cilts that day. Did you see any other Cilts/kilts when you were there. Where abouts in South Wales are you by the way. Here's a couple of pics from the day that I posted back then.
We gate crashed a members only tent for some beers .. no one was there to stop us .. we got served straight away ... later though it took us flipping ages to get served at one of the main bars.

And of course The Welsh Tartan Centre stand

Iechyd Da

Derek

**SingleBarrelBourbon** · 14th September 06, 09:12 AM

I do have a family line into Wales, it ties in downstream to my family line into Scotland. Family name was Kendricks. Orginally thought it was a sept of the McNaughton Clan until further research had that branch going into Wales.

Just another tartan or two to look into.

**McClef** · 14th September 06, 10:14 AM

Originally Posted by Derek

Hi McClef ... We too were at The Royal Welsh. What day did you go. We went on the Tues and apart from the guy at The Welsh Tartan Centre stand and myself, I saw no other Cilts that day. Did you see any other Cilts/kilts when you were there. Where abouts in South Wales are you by the way. Here's a couple of pics from the day that I posted back then.

We gate crashed a members only tent for some beers .. no one was there to stop us .. we got served straight away ... later though it took us flipping ages to get served at one of the main bars.

Iechyd Da

Derek

S'mae Derek Bach

I went on the Thursday, the last day of the show.

Like you I saw no other Cilts/Kilts that day apart from myself and the guy at the Welsh Tartan stand. He said that more people were hiring than buying but that business was gradually expanding. I don't think the prices they were charging at the show helped though - he showed me a casual St David's tartan cilt and that was over £100 when I have seen the same cilt advertised on their website for £79! Even a Welsh tartan tie was about £17.50!

He asked me for my clan which is Robertson and show me the Roberts Welsh tartan which is a lovely blue and something to bear in mind for the future!

I didn't bother with the beer tents and thought the best value refreshments were the ones in the flower tent - very WI in there!

I did get a smile and a wave from Elyn Rhys, the S4C TV personality, for my kilt though!

I waved back!

The annoying that was that I lost my kilt pin somewhere amongst the milling crowds through people brushing against it.

I have since taken steps to make my remaining ones more secure!

I live in the valleys, the Ebbw Fach town of Abertillery (Abertyleri) and the locals seem to have got pretty used to seeing me in my kilt - just as well as I am kilted approx 4 days a week and this could grow with the new ones I have on the way!

I took quite a few pics of the show which are on my photo blog site www.fotothing.com/cleftref but you would have to scroll through the archives to find them as I haven't put them on another hosting site like flickr.

Where in Wales are you?

Gyda Cyfarchion

Trefor