What Goes with the Great Kilt?

[JRB]

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Question: since my "blanket" was soooo big, there was a lot of fabric to pin together at the shoulder. The 5" pin worked. I would like something a little nicer and have looked at several metal brooches. Frankly, the "pin" part of most of these are just too light-weight for the job. Hence, do you know of a heavier brooch that is reasonably authentic that is actually made for a kilt of my design?

A bodkin of about 3" long would be the most historically correct way to wear the belted plaid. It holds the plaid very securely.

[Woodsheal]

The pennanular brooches fell out of use in the early Middle Ages, well before the "great kilt" period. Yep, you want a bodkin! These fancy Celtic hair-pins make cool-looking bodkins for your plaid:
http://www.craftycelts.com/hair/lightpins.html

[Panache]

Playing around with the tartan cloth I have came up with a method of folding that seemed to work great but is different than the other methods I have seen online.

I roughly measured out enough cloth for the under apron

Then I gathered enough pleats to use up the majority of the material.

Next I belted the under apron, the pleats and the too long over apron.

Then I slung the rest of the material from the over apron behind my back and over the left shoulder.

It seemed far more manageable to deal and use the extra cloth this way.

I assume this must be wrong, but I wanted the feedback from those who are more knowledgeable about this.

Cheers

Jamie :ootd:

[Woodsheal]

Playing around with the tartan cloth I have came up with a method of folding that seemed to work great but is different than the other methods I have seen online.

I roughly measured out enough cloth for the under apron

Then I gathered enough pleats to use up the majority of the material.

Next I belted the under apron, the pleats and the too long over apron.

Then I slung the rest of the material from the over apron behind my back and over the left shoulder.

It seemed far more manageable to deal and use the extra cloth this way.

I assume this must be wrong, but I wanted the feedback from those who are more knowledgeable about this.

Cheers

Jamie :ootd:

Hmmmm...did you end up with something like this :

[Panache]

Brian,




Well I guess that answered that question!


Seriously though, it went across the front and then just behind my back and then up over the shoulder. The material didn't come all the way to the belt.

Cheers

Jamie

[Woodsheal]

Brian,




Well I guess that answered that question!


Seriously though, it went across the front and then just behind my back and then up over the shoulder. The material didn't come all the way to the belt.

Cheers

Jamie

I think I can visualize what you're doing, Jamie. It works, but does it still allow you to spread out the upper material around your shoulders in cape fashion, or draw it up over your head? That's the beauty of the belted plaid: that it can form a warm upper-body garment....

[Panache]

I think I can visualize what you're doing, Jamie. It works, but does it still allow you to spread out the upper material around your shoulders in cape fashion, or draw it up over your head? That's the beauty of the belted plaid: that it can form a warm upper-body garment....

I didn't try that so I will experiment again and see

Cheers

Jamie