PV versus Wool

[Colin]

To Rocky and the Wiz of BC i say: "perhaps this is a GREAT time to have a blurb on your respective websites about differences in material for us and the rest of the buying public. [/B]

Watch this space in the near future.

[ozone]

After re-reading through this and the other thread again, I do have a wee question: is there any environmental orientation to folks who wear kilts? If so, to make rayon takes some pretty toxic chemicals, it's essentially polymerized cotton. To make cotton polymerize, you have to muck up the environment pretty good. Also, polyester is made from crude oil....not a sustainable resource.

For both these reasons, good old wool seems the most green-friendly substance to use (if you discount sheep farts...which are voluminous). Dunno if that would make the original poster of this thread think about from which substance to have a kilt made, but there ya go!




PS here's a link on rayon, if you want to read more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayon
PPS: here's a link on polyester: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyester
PPPS: here's one on wool: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wool
PPPPS: here's one on sheep farts (I'm not kidding!): http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/947129/posts

and a picture!

[beloitpiper]

Is that plain enough for you?

But my $30 PV kilt is so terrible!

(ducks for cover)

[fluter]

For both these reasons, good old wool seems the most green-friendly substance to use

On this we can certainly agree.

(if you discount sheep farts...which are voluminous).

I'd say the farts are the least of it... In volume, sheep can have a distinctive odor, all right!

[slohairt]

But my $30 PV kilt is so terrible!

(ducks for cover)

But is it PV (Polyester-Viscose) or is it acrylic? Mistaking the two is like mistaking taffeta for satin! Considering that PV is priced anywhere from $11-$25 dollars per metre I would guess your kilt to be Acrylic.

[Colin]

But is it PV (Polyester-Viscose) or is it acrylic? Mistaking the two is like mistaking taffeta for satin! Considering that PV is priced anywhere from $11-$25 dollars per metre I would guess your kilt to be Acrylic.

I thought we sorted that it wasn't PV earlier in this thread. Greg has obviously overdosed on Guinness prior to his US return.

[beloitpiper]

But is it PV (Polyester-Viscose) or is it acrylic? Mistaking the two is like mistaking taffeta for satin! Considering that PV is priced anywhere from $11-$25 dollars per metre I would guess your kilt to be Acrylic.

I thought we sorted that it wasn't PV earlier in this thread. Greg has obviously overdosed on Guinness prior to his US return.

...I...I was joking.

I guess the sarcasm didn't translate onto the interwebs like I hoped.

[beowulf67]

I thought we sorted that it wasn't PV earlier in this thread. Greg has obviously overdosed on Guinness prior to his US return.

It's all that beer that went missing from the brewery. He denied taking it but now we know the truth!!

[Alan H]

Be aware that both Fraser and Kirkbright and Marton Mills offer a few tartans in polyester/wool blends.

My Holyrood kilt (from Caledonian Kilts, no longer selling on ebay) is a wool blend. I wish I knew who supplied that fabric, I can't find the weaver anywhere.

The Marton Mills website is currently under re-design and is currently impenetrable to normal minds. I don't remember the name of the line which is wool/poly blend, and you can only search their site by th ename of the fabric line, now.

You might try searching through the Kilt Stores Tartan Finder.

[RockyR]

"Stirling" is MM's line of Poly Wool... 55% Poly / 45% wool.