I have both selvaged and hemmed kilts - but without going and looking I couldn't tell you which they were - well, the pinstripes will have to be because of the nature of the pattern, but what I mean is that if you make a neat job of it, no one seeing you out strutting your pleats will be able to tell that you are wearing a hemmed kilt rather than one with a selvage - in fact, if it was a lightish material a hem would give it a little more swing, which might not be a bad thing.

If you take off the fabric for the waistband etc as a strip cut from selvage to selvage - or where it would have been - then the full width of the material can be used to reduce the presence of the damage on the kilt to a minimum.

Wool is wonderfully malleable, yet resilient - if it was not for the unfortunate attentions of moths it would be a perfect fibre.

Making a kilt from this poor unfortunate fabric might require more ingenuity than using perfect stuff - but I enjoy a challenge - luckily there are many miles between it and me or I might have been tempted...