Alan, From what I have read from you, you would make a great Professional Kiltmaker. The personal touch is what keeps me doing this. I get to meet the wonderful folks who end up wearing my work. I have met many of you and feel a real bond.

Sure, I could go wholesale as others have, I could farm out the actual work and just sell them. But that would take away the experience of actually handing over a kilt or a shirt that now has a story. I can tell my customers exactly where the flaw is, where the little blood spot used to be.

Every time the customer wears what I have made they can re-tell those stories. And when they stop back into the shop their experiences in their kilt can come back to me in a growing tale of the life of a kilt that started out as nothing but a piece of ordinary fabric from some place we have never been.

This is also why I know all my suppliers personally. David and his sporrans, Steve at Oconee, Henry and his First Peoples silver pins. All these people and their products started a raw materials and have become the start of fantastic stories.