Kilted Challenge

[LordKiltClad]

to premise this, there is a gentleman at my office that does these absolutely amazing lifelike dolls of people. They stand about 3 feet tall, and are posed with soft bodies, and hand sculpted head, hands, and feet. He does the tiniest of details in superb quality. A boy scout in uniform made from cloth of actual uniforms, wire frame glasses, tiny bells on an elf outfit, molded football helmet for a player, etc, etc. He sells these for upwards of $2K each.

As a gift to me, and a promotional thing for him, he's wanting me as his next subject. The doll will be dressed as me on my wedding day. PC Jacket, fly plaid, kilt, sporran, ghillies, hose, sword, etc.

Here's the challenge.
Of course the doll will be kilted. In MacKenzie tartan of course. But since this is basically a scale model of myself, he wants MacKenzie tartan scaled down as well. I was thinking a baby/toddlers kilt would suit this well, but scaling the tartan is a problem. So how would I go about getting a scaled down tartan?

And is there a kilt maker out there who could help me. the waist of the doll is like 16" and the height of the kilt would be like 8" at most. I'm getting actual dimensions from him to get a proper fit, but from my guess this is like a one yard to 1.5 yard kilt if that. PV material as the wool is too thick in scale.


Any suggestions, direction, etc. would be great. Of course posting pictures afterwards goes without saying.

[Fearnest]

(wash it in really hot water...)

Having used my smart-aleck card here, I honestly don't know how you could do that without having a special weaving done for the purpose.

[LordKiltClad]

How would one go about a special weave for something so small?

[Highland Logan]

A 3 foot person is about 1/2 scale, so all you would have to do is scale down the thread count. the weaver should be able to do this easily. Here is the thread count for the MacKenzie tartans, and the basic colour codes for tartan ...

R (red), K (black), DR (darkred), NB (navy), DG (darkgreen), BG (darkcyan), N (silver), DN (gray), LG (lightgreen), G (green), Y (yellow), B (blue), LB (lightblue), W (white), P (darkviolet), LP (violet)

B20, K4, B4, K4, B4, K16, G6, K2, W4, K2, G16, K16, B18, R4

B24, K4, B4, K4, B4, K24, G24, K2, W4, K2, G24, K224, B24, K2, R4

R4, G44, K16, B8, K4, B4, K4, B56, K4, B4, K4, B8, K16, G44, W4

R4, B14, K14, G16, K2, W4, K2, G16, K14, W4, A4, W14, A4, W6

... and MacKenzie Dress

W4, B4, W106, B4, W4, K30, G30, K4, W6, K4, G30, K30, B28, K4, R6, K4, B28, K30, W4, B4, W106, B4, W4

[Highland Logan]

I just thought about this. You could also look into getting a womans sash, as the materal is thiner, and the weave is also has a smaller sett. The sash my wife has is 3 (repeat of the sett) high, and is 11". My kilt is 2 1/2 repeats. so I guess that this would work for you, and save you the cost of a specal weave.

Frank

[Fedgunner]

I simply can't believe the luck. (I pulled this card out of my wallet today)

St. Croix Weaving might be able to help
My wife purchased a tartan scarf from them at the last ramble. (Campbell)
They do a lot of work in silk, which might help a bit with the scale drape.

www.stcroixweaving.com