hello from montana

[TheKiltedWonder]

Basting stiches are white (generally, to make them stand out) stitches that are loose and are there to keep your pleats in place during shipping. It's considered bad form to wear a kilt with zig-zaging white stitches across the back, holding down your pleats.

Anyway, welcome!

[Amoskeag]

Welcome to the board.
http://www.nps.gov/sair/
Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)
Here is a link to Saugus Iron Works. They had many Scottish POWs from the English CW. The page itself has little info but the folks there have some good stuff. They also sell a pamphlet "The Scots at Hammersmith" by Stephen Carlson chronicling their time there. Every so often I go down there with my history geeks.....um,... er ...friends and do some living history programs. I realize that 1650's is earlier than you were looking for but it's something to start with. The museum has several woodcuts depicting the wood cutters and charcoal makers.

ps Fly rods are kind of like kilts in a way. I own, and have shut in the truck door,a couple rods from KMart that I use to catch fish in the back woods (backpacking). I also have my grandfathers split cane rod that is a treasure and a very nice rod that is my real rod. They all catch fish but not all are works of art!

Bob

[haxtonhouse]

ps Fly rods are kind of like kilts in a way. I own, and have shut in the truck door,a couple rods from KMart that I use to catch fish in the back woods (backpacking). I also have my grandfathers split cane rod that is a treasure and a very nice rod that is my real rod. They all catch fish but not all are works of art!

Bob[/QUOTE]

Thats true, any rod will work, but not all rods work well.

[James MacMillan]

from Sunny Southern California

[McNulty]

Hey Haxtonhouse
Custom fly rods. Sounds like an interesting person for sure. Welcome from the Western Slope.
Nulty

[haxtonhouse]

Hey Haxtonhouse
Custom fly rods. Sounds like an interesting person for sure. Welcome from the Western Slope.
Nulty

Maybe you and I should get together for a day of fly fishing!

[McNulty]

Haxtonhouse
Sounds like a great idea. You bring the rods and I'll show you some great spots on the Roaring Fork or the Frying Pan. Both are Gold Medal Waters. Let me know when and I'll throw my gear in the back of the car. I've never fished Montana and may head up there this summer. Let's see if we can set something up! School gets out in June and I'm usually free for the summer after fishing gigs.
Nulty

[haxtonhouse]

Haxtonhouse
Sounds like a great idea. You bring the rods and I'll show you some great spots on the Roaring Fork or the Frying Pan. Both are Gold Medal Waters. Let me know when and I'll throw my gear in the back of the car. I've never fished Montana and may head up there this summer. Let's see if we can set something up! School gets out in June and I'm usually free for the summer after fishing gigs.
Nulty

Come on up, we have a great selection of excellent trout rivers! I would like to get down there too, this summer sounds good!

[Kiltman]

Welcome from Eastern Washington State. We have Spokane House, a NW and Hudson's Bay fur post here. I have seen some pictures of Rev era military in kilts, but none at during the fur trade. However, its seem likely to me that the pipers (especially) wore kilts.