Help the Noob

[RockyR]

I buy cloth from the Welsh Tartan Centre weekly and have made dozens of kilts in their cloth. They are a bit softer than other mills but still make a nice kilt. Any kilt maker can buy cloth in these tartans and make a nice kilt for you.

As others have said, this cloth WILL have to be hemmed as it's not woven with a kilt selvedge.

[Spartan Tartan]

If you like the tartan, then get it.

There are more than enough kilt makers here that will assist you in getting the material and measurements for a very well made kilt.

I do not know if you are OVER thinking it, but I would not give it any further thought excwot to determine who was going to make the kilt;-)

Cost... well, that is certainly a personal matter. All my kilts were custom woven due to lack of otherwise available material. So, I may be the wrong person, but I say that if it is the kilt you want then save a bit longer and pay the additional amount. Let's face it, as long as you want a Welsh tartan, anything will never completely make you happy...

Just my 2cents.

[Bareknees1]

Dave-it was indeed a rental. once it was on, the magic happened. in process of ordering. then, as the rabble indicate, the jonesing begins

[Bareknees1]

Spartan, dead on. I think I had looked at every tartan on the web but could not let go of the Welsh, so I didn't...and happiness awaits.

[RockyR]

So what maker did you go with for your kilt?

[DyerStraits]

As a fellow cyclist, I would love to hear more about your cycling tour of Wales. I spent my third year of university in (relatively) nearby Devon--played lots of tennis, drank lots of ale, but did not spend anywhere nearly enough time on two wheels.....

[Bareknees1]

DyerStraits,
at the risk of boring the rabble, I'll try to highlight. took a self guided tour with a company that set up the B&Bs, shuttled luggage. got maps from the Ordnance survey. noticed a lot of Double hashes(>>) indicating grades over 20%. As you know, on a bike, that can feel like riding up the side of a building. so, my bike got a lot of rest at times, while I "merrily" pushed it along on more than one occasion(used a lot of words that rhymed with duck that first day). The wife and are fit and avid cyclists, but, Wow, Wales was a butt kicker. Rode from Abergavenny to Brecon(over the Black mountains). Then big loop around Brecon Beacons, on to Rhayader. Killer route to Hay on Wye. From Hay, an ascent above the mist through one hellacious and hellaciously scenic pass. Gorgeous trip. Met lots of future kilt material growers-sheep sheep sheep. Would do it again in a heartbeat. Tough tough cycling but great scenery and every greater people.