Maple Leaf Tartan

[Kilted Stuart]

So what your saying RockyR is that if you wanted to splice the two you would have to turn the second piece of the double width and splice leaving a selvage on the bottom of half and a cut on the other, thats what makes you have to hem it. So the best and easiest way would be to cut the length from a full piece and then make the kilt.

Sorry for all the questions, I'm here to learn.
I appreciate the info. I can't always bug some other kiltmakers to answer what is probably the most basic of questions.I already ask my neighbor too many questions as it is. Like I said, I don't make them, I wear them.

Kilted Stuart

[Tartan Hiker]

MacHummel...Might you be willing to part with 4 yards of fabric for a DIY'er who would love to turn it into a box-pleated hiker?

Bill

[RockyR]

So what your saying RockyR is that if you wanted to splice the two you would have to turn the second piece of the double width and splice leaving a selvage on the bottom of half and a cut on the other, thats what makes you have to hem it. So the best and easiest way would be to cut the length from a full piece and then make the kilt.

Yes... that's correct.

MacHummel... sorry to jump into your thread here. There was no malice intended. The ML makes a GREAT looking kilt (and curtains and slip cover for a chair in my living room) and since you've ordered a "special run" of it, you won't have to contend with the "splicing" thing until you get down to the last pieces (and hopefully then the math works out right so you don't have to splice there either!).

[Colin]

Yes... that's correct.

MacHummel... sorry to jump into your thread here. There was no malice intended. The ML makes a GREAT looking kilt (and curtains and slip cover for a chair in my living room) and since you've ordered a "special run" of it, you won't have to contend with the "splicing" thing until you get down to the last pieces (and hopefully then the math works out right so you don't have to splice there either!).

Bear mentioned the same thing to me a few years ago. I have a huge piece of the 9oz ML tartan in PV on my wall downstairs, and Rocky is completley right about the pattern. The splicing would be difficult, because even if you do try and flip the other half of a double, the weft and weave would be going another direction. I am sure it can be done somehow, but McHummell has the proper pieces, and it's not like the Xmarks tartan where people have ordered yardage that will be cut from the bolt, they have ordered kilts in the tartan.

The problem is with "A-Symmetrical tartans" (tartans that aren't mirror images of themselves). Most tartans have a 1234321 kind of color scheme. Some tartans are A-Symmetrical which means they have a 12341234 type color scheme. When they're asymmetrical, you can't join them like you described unless you HEM them.

Considering most Canadians are of the 12341234 category as well, this is the perfect tartan for us

Pete, I would have totally gotten in on this, but the wool MacKenzie Weathered had to come first.