I'm no expert, but chances are you won't find fabric a lot wider. Pendleton makes tartan fabric in 60" widths, but I do not think the selvedge is a proper kilt selvedge- and you may find that 60" is not a lot better than 54" Before you make too many cuts, though, I think you'd be safe to shorten your length of goods to 5 yards. Better yet, try some other fabric and see just how long (and wide) you want your Great Kilt to be. It sounds as if you have done some experimenting already. A search for "great kilt" might yield you a few others' opinions as to the ideal length. You are the first person I have read about who is as tall as you and wants to wear the great kilt.
Can you afford to buy another 4 or 5 metres? What if you bought 5 more metres, then cut yourself two lengths, 5 metres long and 40" wide? Seam the two lengths to make your Great Kilt 78" wide X 5 metres long. You might want to adjust that a little, but I think that is a good start. You'd have a uniform single seam at the middle and you wouldn't have all of that patchwork. Then you could do something nice with 10 metres of 14" width fabric. Like make sashes for a couple of friends.
Good Luck
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