Thanks Barb. I have already been in contact with Cannuck about the tartan for another reason. From his report he has the only DFT kilt in North America (that must be your work), and his getting the tartan was not an especially easy task either, despite having actually met the designer at some point.

Since the tartan is sold in meters (one meter =1.1 yards) would 4 meters be enough for the kilt (4.4yards) or would I have to go up to 5 meters just for the extra couple inches to get the whole nine yards? Also, I guess my bigger concern is the double width fabric only being 140 cm wide (slightly over 55 inches wide double width and 27.5 inches in single width after splitting the piece) and my needs for an overall kilt length of 26 inches.

If I decide to do it I will just have my non-dutch-speaking dutch wife get one of her dutch-speaking family members to work me through the language barrier at their website and order the tartan directly myself.

Thanks again Barb.

fm