Some things just have to be done by hand. It matters not how many robots build your car, it still takes a human being to drive it off the assembly line and park it in the lot.

Look at the inside of your kilt. The liner is hand sewn, for the simple reason that if it were machine sewn the stitching would show - on the aprons and on the pleats.

The kilt that we wear is little changed in the last 150 years. If there had been a way to automate the process, don't you think that a kilt maker would have found it?

Automation and mass-production generally mean consistency and lower price. Unless one is wearing it as an everyday uniform, how many kilts (that are exactly the same) would we have to buy to make it viable for a manufacturer. I would argue that the number would be so high that it would be non-viable for the purchaser.

As I say - some things just have to be done by hand - and we should be glad that they are!

Regards

Chas