Hand Sewn: Be All End All

[Arizona Scot]

Ok my turn
tartan: loud Macloed
weight: 16oz
custom: pleated to stripe, two buckles
reason: maternal family clan, and everyone would see me coming.

[CelticRanger66]

I already have it!!!
Tartan:MacThomas Modern
Weight: 16 oz
Yardage:8yards
Customization: 2 straps with brass buckles
Why:My Family Tartan

[ForresterModern]

Tartan: tough choice between Douglas Ancient Red and Allen 1996
Fabric: both are custom weaves, but it would be 16oz
Yardage: 9yd
Custom: pleat to sett, 3 straps
Why: Fosters/Forresters are a sept of the Douglas clan and I think the most beautiful Douglas tartan out there is the Ancient red. Allen becasue it too is beautiful, and my paternal grandfather's mother was an Allen so there is a direct family connection.

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

TARTAN: Rathdown (obviously, as I have several MacMillan tartan kilts)
FABRIC: Silk barathea, 16 oz
YARDAGE: As required to make up the kilt
CUSTOM: Three black straps, holly leaf tooled, reverse of strap red Moroccan leather; double box pleated (although I'd have to see one first-- it might be a bit too thick to comfortably sit on); silver buckles engraved to match my shoe buckles; kilt lined with poplin in MacMillan hunting
WHY?: I think that's pretty much self-evident!

[Bryan]

Tartan: Texas Bluebonnet (it's such a pretty tartan)
Fabric: 16oz Worsted
Yardage: 4yd
Custom: Box pleated by the great Matt Newsome
Why: It is the state I was born in, raised in, and proud to call home

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Tartan: Confederate Memorial
Fabric: 16oz Worsted
Yardage: 8yd
Custom: Pleated to the sett, 2 straps
Why: To honor my ancestors who fought and died for the Southern Confederacy

[H. Hastings]

There are so many tartans I want the only way I can get through this is by asking "if I could only get one more kilt, what would it be?"

tartan: MacLaren
weight: Strome yardage: 8 yds
customization: pleated to the sett; no belt loops; two buckles (handmade patternweld by a certain smith who frequents these forums)
why: MacLaren is the unofficial tartan of the Boy Scouts. My father was an executive for the B.S.A. for twenty years and my mother worked as a volunteer in Scouting for almost as long.

[attworth]

Tartan: Cameron of Erracht Ancient
Weight: 18oz
Yardage: Whatever it takes
Customization: I need to find a way to do a military box pleat. Two buckles please. No fringe. Military length. And some matching flashes.
Why: Such a beautiful tartan. The one my wife and I used for our hand-fasting ceremony.

[Howard Clark]

I should have made buckles for the Tewksbury I ordered, too Harlan.

I did not realize such things were on your wish list (buckles). I'd trade you enough of them for several kilts, for that one Peter Johnsson sword you have!
(fat chance, I know)

[Stratherrick]

For me, my Hunting Fraser, my only kilt, is just fine - handmade in Inverness.

If money were no object, I'd have silver fittings to my sgian dubh with a real Cairngorm crystal set into it - I only know of one place that sells them, under the counter, as it's illegal to mine for them nowadays. THe one I fancy would cost about £150/$300

I'd keep my brass chain and belt buckle as they go with the colouring of the tartan, but a solid gold kilt pin wouldn't go amiss.

Good thread!

Bruce

[sirdaniel1975]

Tartan: The Mystery tartan trim from my Great Grandfather's Glengary
Fabric: 16oz Worsted
Yardage: 4yd
Custom: Box Pleat
Why: Unique and pride in my family


That's the Glengary, it's a child's glengary from c. 1880'a Glasgow