Centre of a kilt question

[Rex_Tremende]

Well, you wear both the kilt and the sporran centered. If the center of the kilt is not one of the primary stripes, your sporran would fall in between.

Since I'm not a kiltmaker, I don't know what the convention is, but all of my hand-made kilts have a stripe in the center.

Regards,
Rex.

[bjproc]

Well, you wear both the kilt and the sporran centered. If the center of the kilt is not one of the primary stripes, your sporran would fall in between.

Since I'm not a kiltmaker, I don't know what the convention is, but all of my hand-made kilts have a stripe in the center.

Regards,
Rex.

yes, thats what i was kinda meaning, as i said, it's probably tartan dependant, but to me, it looks a lot better with the stripe to the centre of the kilt

[The Wizard of BC]

If you are having trouble finding the center of your apron you can try taking the kilt off fastening the straps as normal, and folding the kilt in half with the top straps opposite each other and even. Then look at the outer apron. Where it folds is the center.
The convention among kiltmakers is to have a prominent stripe from the Tartan centered in the apron. So, when you have the kilt on you should be able to look down and check that the prominent stripe is centered on your body.
Your sporran should also be centered. So there should be the center prominent stripe running behind the center of the sporran.

Only if the center of your apron does not have a prominent stripe would you put the sporran between the stripes.

This gives you a quick way to glance down and check that everything is centered and aligned. Stripe of kilt centered, Belt buckle centered on the Stripe, Sporran centered on the stripe. No more "Honey, is my kilt straight?"

[bjproc]

If you are having trouble finding the center of your apron you can try taking the kilt off fastening the straps as normal, and folding the kilt in half with the top straps opposite each other and even. Then look at the outer apron. Where it folds is the center.
The convention among kiltmakers is to have a prominent stripe from the Tartan centered in the apron. So, when you have the kilt on you should be able to look down and check that the prominent stripe is centered on your body.
Your sporran should also be centered. So there should be the center prominent stripe running behind the center of the sporran.

Only if the center of your apron does not have a prominent stripe would you put the sporran between the stripes.

This gives you a quick way to glance down and check that everything is centered and aligned. Stripe of kilt centered, Belt buckle centered on the Stripe, Sporran centered on the stripe. No more "Honey, is my kilt straight?"

thanks for this, this is what i wanting to hear, i'm sure i've seen a kilt where it wasn't centered to a stripe, which in my opinion didn't look quite right.

i'm away to have a tartan designed for my name, then have a kilt made and i was hopeing to make sure that a stripe would be in the center of the apron.

thanks, you've cleared it up for me

[Standard]

i'm away to have a tartan designed for my name, then have a kilt made and i was hopeing to make sure that a stripe would be in the center of the apron.

Where are you having this done? Is it costly? All the places that I have seen have looked like it will run into some money to get a tartan designed, woven, and registered. Just curious because I have been knocking around the idea of having a tartan designed for myself also.

Thanks,

[bjproc]

Where are you having this done? Is it costly? All the places that I have seen have looked like it will run into some money to get a tartan designed, woven, and registered. Just curious because I have been knocking around the idea of having a tartan designed for myself also.

Thanks,

i'm going to get it designed at strathmore woolen mill, i live 5 minutes away from the shop here in Forfar.

it depends on what weight if fabric you want, they recommend a 13oz which you need to get 30m of.

it's £250 for designing the tartan, but if you get them to weave it they refund you the £250, so really your just paying for the the lenght of tartan (£750 approx, can't remember off hand)

http://www.strathmorewoollen.co.uk/m...s.php?pageid=7



you can also ask Matt Newsome,

here's his info page

http://albanach.org/design.htm