Do Your Research (aka Buyer Beware)

[McClef]

Maybe a (limited) market for a hobby weaver with a tabletop loom making swatches of custom tartan??

The time it takes to set up the pattern on the loom can be little different and therefore no economies of scale can really be made. Rarer tartans are therefore inevitably more expensive.

[Dianne B]

The time it takes to set up the pattern on the loom can be little different and therefore no economies of scale can really be made. Rarer tartans are therefore inevitably more expensive.

Indeed. I have done weaving in the past, on an 8-harness 6 foot floor loom. Doing a 3x3 sett on a tabletop would be much easier and use less material.

Some weavers weave for the love of it.