Quote Originally Posted by billmcc View Post
The pv material USAK uses is from the Balmoral range of tartans made by Marton Mills. Standard tartans in this range come from the factory with a fringed selvedge. USAK does not make the fringe. The tartan material that USAK special orders (like the Ireland's National, American Heritage, US Navy and US Army tartans) is ordered with a straight selvedge. So, the type of selvedge your kilt will have will depend on the tartan.
One more thing to add to that... OCCASIONALLY (maybe 1 out of every 8 or 10), we get a bolt of PV cloth WITH a kilting selvedge when we don't special order it. basically, MM has 2 looms... a "Frayed Selvedge" loom and a Tuck Selvedge loom (kilting selvedge). Since they weave wool AND PV, they weave ALL of their wool on the Tuck Selvedge loom 100% of the time. However, when they get backed up on PV tartan weaving on the Frayed Selvedge loom, they weave some on the Tuck Selvedge loom. I CAN NOT SPECIFY what tartans get which loom in their stock range. I just "get what I get".

If you want a PV kilt and it HAS to have a kilting selvedge, you can give me a call and I can tell you what tartans I have IN STOCK that have it and can make one for you.