Isle of Skye kilt

**Barb T** · 27th November 06, 11:18 AM

Originally Posted by wsk

Fine. Just fine. I get to the post office and there in my box my copy of your book. And now it's obsolete - there's a second edition just round the corner! Argh!

No worries. The 1st edition won´t be obsolete. The only real difference with the 2nd edition will be a chapter on box pleated kilts (written with Matt Newsome), and I'm going to have a bunch extra of just that chapter printed up so that people who own the first book can buy just the box-pleat instructions separately for not much $$ and stick into the back of the first edition.

Barb

**Rygar** · 27th November 06, 11:19 AM

Smashing! Absolutely Smashing!!

*Insert Standing Ovation smiley here!*

**McClef** · 27th November 06, 11:21 AM

That's one helluva great tartan Barb!

Your future son in law looks very smart in it - be great if he wore it at the wedding!

**Barb T** · 27th November 06, 11:47 AM

He has a Highland Granite kilt for the wedding.

B

**JimB** · 27th November 06, 12:03 PM

Originally Posted by Barb T.

No worries. The 1st edition won´t be obsolete. The only real difference with the 2nd edition will be a chapter on box pleated kilts (written with Matt Newsome), and I'm going to have a bunch extra of just that chapter printed up so that people who own the first book can buy just the box-pleat instructions separately for not much $$ and stick into the back of the first edition.

Barb

Thank you Barb!
I for one gratefully appreciate that!

Especially since I'm trying to figure out a box pleat on my own right now.

**Riverkilt** · 27th November 06, 12:04 PM

Hopefully, this post will make it depite the heavy drool on my keyboard.

Being descended from great grandfathers who roamed the Trotternish Peninsula of Skye in Uig and Staffin I've had the Isle of Skye tartan high on my list. But until seeing pics from Pdcorlis and Jiminak, and now these lovely photos I haven't really understood the beauty of a finished kilt in this tartan.

Guessing more than one mill makes the tartan since the fabric seems brighter on Pdcorlis and Jiminak's pics than on these...which seem almost a weathered. Know cameras can make a difference too.

Also wondering about the leather. The straps on Jiminak's are brown leather. I can't see the straps on Pdcorlis' or these pics.

Thanks for posting these beauties.

Ron

**jiminak** · 27th November 06, 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by Riverkilt

Guessing more than one mill makes the tartan since the fabric seems brighter on Pdcorlis and Jiminak's pics than on these...which seem almost a weathered. Know cameras can make a difference too.

Also wondering about the leather. The straps on Jiminak's are brown leather. I can't see the straps on Pdcorlis' or these pics.

Thanks for posting these beauties.

Ron

I have to correct you here, it must the pesky camera thingy-whatsit, but my straps are in fact black. The kilt is by TFCK from cloth woven by Marton Mills.

Jim

**efer** · 27th November 06, 01:11 PM

great pictures, Barb! Awesome kilt!!! Outstanding job

**Tattoo Bradley** · 27th November 06, 01:29 PM

Stunning!!!!!

**pdcorlis** · 27th November 06, 01:29 PM

Originally Posted by Barb T.

He has a Highland Granite kilt for the wedding.

B

Barb - I've seen a few images of that tartan but they vary in color on my monitor. Can you tell me if it is a true "neutral" grey-black tartan or if it is a bit on the warmish brown tone to the shades of gray?

Thanks!