Advice needed: Special Weave Kilt - 15/16 oz worsted wool - 8yds Traditional

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But Scotweb does offer their Balmoral 8yd kilt made up in your tartan for $530 I believe, which is only $10 more than the cost of custom woven 8 yards of 16oz single width tartan by them.

$530 would be an awesome price for a custom weave, but that's not going to happen. You might get a stock tartan 8-yard for that, but not a custom weave. I've priced out my next two wish-list 8-yarders from Scotweb - one in Buchanan Clan Reproduction (15 oz wool by DC Dalgliesh), and one in Buchanan Clan Hunting, Ancient (also in 15 oz from DCD). And those, with the X-Marks discount, are $890 each. On Scotweb's site, the standard stock tartan price is the default shown, until you drill down through the tartan selection screens. As you view the fabric selections, you see how the price changes depending upon whether the tartan is stock or not, the color scheme, the fabric weight, and the mill.

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As it appears that you designed several different versions of the tartan on Scotweb's tartan design online device I believe you may need to talk to Nick Fiddes at Scotweb about having the tartan woven, as my memory makes me think that there are some restrictions about who can weave the stuff designed on their website. Nice thing is that DC Dalgleish is now in house for Scotweb so not really a problem. But Scotweb does offer their Balmoral 8yd kilt made up in your tartan for $530 I believe, which is only $10 more than the cost of custom woven 8 yards of 16oz single width tartan by them.

I have one Balmoral built scotweb kilt that is quite well made and without obvious flaws or deficiencies, and Nick and the folks at Scotweb are pretty good people to work with.


jeff

When Scotweb first put it's tartan designer online, there was a condition that any design could only be woven through Scotweb. After repesentations to Nick, he announced, on this forum, that the requirement to do so no longer existed and you were free to have any mill weave any self designed tartan where you used the Scotweb design generator