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29th July 09, 06:19 PM
#1
How to make a kilt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iUjcCEKT0k
Simply amazing!
This was at The Gathering by the way... not my upload
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29th July 09, 06:22 PM
#2
I think having the blue tarp is cheating.
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29th July 09, 06:34 PM
#3
Interesting video. Thanks, Paul.
Originally Posted by george7
I think having the blue tarp is cheating.
I wonder if it's registered with the Scottish Tarpaulins Authority?
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29th July 09, 06:35 PM
#4
Oh yea, I can see a poor shepherd, wheat farmer, or cooper in the village going thru that entire process each and every morning when he wakes up.
There's the fire to stoke for breakfast. The cows need milking. And he's got a 12 hour day of making a living ahead of him.
Yea, makes sense to me.
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I wear the kilt because: Swish + Swagger = Swoon.
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29th July 09, 06:38 PM
#5
Interesting demonstration, I wish that we could have heard the speaker better. I'd sooner think that the kilt was a little more hastily put together in the morning than the amount of time it took the demostrator. However, if you were doing this process every morning of your life I'd bet you would get very fast at it in a short time.
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29th July 09, 06:49 PM
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Thanks for all the videos. I enjoyed several of the other ones on YouTube too.
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29th July 09, 07:00 PM
#7
Try doing that after a few pints!
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29th July 09, 07:01 PM
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Originally Posted by The Wizard of BC
Oh yea, I can see a poor shepherd, wheat farmer, or cooper in the village going thru that entire process each and every morning when he wakes up.
There's the fire to stoke for breakfast. The cows need milking. And he's got a 12 hour day of making a living ahead of him.
Yea, makes sense to me.
The English invented the great kilt so that the Scots would spend their days getting dressed.
Airman. Piper. Scholar. - Avatar: MacGregor Tartan
“KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.” - Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
www.melbournepipesanddrums.com
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29th July 09, 07:24 PM
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Originally Posted by The Wizard of BC
Oh yea, I can see a poor shepherd, wheat farmer, or cooper in the village going thru that entire process each and every morning when he wakes up.
There's the fire to stoke for breakfast. The cows need milking. And he's got a 12 hour day of making a living ahead of him.
Yea, makes sense to me.
I, similarly, highly doubt that any person employed in one of those trades would be wearing a plaide on a regular basis... AFAIK, it was the young nobility who hired themselves out as mercenaries that developed and popularized the fashion. I would be surprised to learn that common men would be in a position to purchase such a length of fine fabric and then choose to put it to such hard use. Not only that; but, I believe I read somewhere that current historical forensics points to the widespread use of inner-drawstrings with discreet loops to facilitate speedy assembly of the pleats (in conditions where tarps were unavailable or wind was inescapable) for the belted-plaide.
The spirit of the Declaration of Arbroath (6 April 1320) abides today, defiantly resisting any tyranny that would disarm, disperse and despoil proud people of just morals, determined to keep the means of protecting their families and way of life close at hand.
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29th July 09, 07:31 PM
#10
Very informative, thank you. I was planning on wearing a belted plaid to a renaissance festival this fall.
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