Help please! Hole in kilt

[Splash_4]

I am so stupid, while sitting down this evening, I pulled part of my kilt pin through the fabric of the apron, leaving a small hole. What do I do now to ensure that the hold doesn't fray or is there a way to repair it??

Help!

[ccga3359]

Is it a tear or was the weave just opened up? Some people on this forum have touted the stuff called Fray Check that would stop any further raveling. This make make that area stiffer though.

[Kilted KT]

buy a new kilt to use as parts to repair the old one.

[Tattoo Bradley]

Bummer! Which kilt was this? I don't wear a pin often (because of fear of this very thing.)

[Splash_4]

It was my brand new MacKinnon kilt.... Bummer indeed.

[oregonscot]

Where did you get the kilt,and have you thought of contacting them to see if there is something they might be able to do, to help? Just a thought.

[Caradoc]

I am so stupid, while sitting down this evening, I pulled part of my kilt pin through the fabric of the apron, leaving a small hole. What do I do now to ensure that the hold doesn't fray or is there a way to repair it??

Help!

I've seen a number of kilts that have had a piece of grosgrain ribbon in a coordinating color sewn on where the kilt pin goes.

That might work for you. Covers the hole, looks good, and gives a better surface to pin to.

[Doc]

My gramps used to back the apron with ribbon and then hand stitch small button holes for his kiltpins, he never went without. I think the pin would fail before the apron ripped. You had to look pretty close to see the holes when the pin was off.

[Martin S]

There are -- alas -- Scottish-made kilts with poor quality wool.
I have one that is very soft, and holes appeared around the kilt pin in no time. I now never put a pin on this one. The cloth was woven by Strathmore, and I would not buy another from there.
(I'll put the story of this kilt in another thread "caveat emptor" -- if I can find the "new thread"" button!)

On my other kilts, I wear a pin only where there is sufficient thickness (double or triple) to take the weight. Some have not enough cloth folded back at the fringed edge of the apron to allow this.

Martin

[Scratchy's Lass]

What do I do now to ensure that the hold doesn't fray or is there a way to repair it??

(Emp. Added)

Splash 4, if you have access to a "reweaver" person that might be a repair option?

This came to mind because I had a one worsted wool suit with its 'vent' in the front, and I managed to rip the vent seam getting into a car. A friend knew of a "reweaver" (who, IIRC, worked in conjunction with a dry cleaning/alteration place) and suggested having the ripped part of the fabric "rewoven" would be an invisible fix. Lucky for me - it was

As I understood the proceedure, individual threads are pulled or somehow removed intact from other seam allowances and then used to actually re-weave the tear, hole, burn and whatnot. This has been some years but at that time it was not prohibitively expensive even to my then-budget.

'Might be worth looking into?