Quote Originally Posted by Ted Crocker View Post
It can be difficult to keep the selvage edge, hope I spelled that right, streight. Also it would take a bit of practice to get the feel for making your wep evenly tight. It could get horribly out of square. Having a very well built loom would help a lot. I have never worked with twill weaving, and never ever worked with a good loom, just home made rug type stuff, so hope you get someone else with a better answer.
I wrote up my take on this awhile back in the following thread:

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/h...highlight=loom

and here

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/w...hlight=weaving

It is almost impossible to hand weave the hard tartan that you can buy commercially for kilting. Tartan can be woven on a hand loom, but it will not likely have the "hand" of commercially woven tartan.

Barb