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Looky what I have!
Kilted Teacher and Wilderness Ranger and proud member of Clan Donald, USA
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Awesome!!! Looking really nice!!
HERMAN, Adventurer, BBQ guru, student of history
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 Originally Posted by Tartan Hiker
Looky what I have!

Hmmm. Both those pics show the green looking more olive than mine. The greem in mine is more grass green. I wonder if it's muted vs. modern or my monitor. Mine is the same weave from DC Dalgliesh & Sons of Selkirk.
Dee
Ferret ad astra virtus
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I think it must be the muted. Man, I really like it that way. The Carolina was always on my "to get" list but seeing that muted tone it may have just given it a boost in the rankings. I think I'd like it heavier than 11 oz though.
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 Originally Posted by starbkjrus
Hmmm. Both those pics show the green looking more olive than mine. The greem in mine is more grass green. I wonder if it's muted vs. modern or my monitor. Mine is the same weave from DC Dalgliesh & Sons of Selkirk.
Dee,
Yes, yours was also woven by Dalgleish, but in different colors. When I had the cloth for your kilt woven, I specifically requested he weave it in the old Wilsons of Bannockburn tartan colors.
Brief history lesson. Peter MacDonald, who designed the Carolina tartan (see: http://www.carolinatartan.com/story.htm) is an expert in eighteenth and nineteenth century Scottish textiles and has spent a great deal of time researching the firm William Wilson and Sons of Bannockburn, the first major large scale commercial producer of tartan cloth. Wilsons began using standardized colors for their tartans sometime in the 1760s. Peter MacDonald has been able to research and reproduce these colors. When he was hand weaving tartan cloth on a full-time basis, these were the colors he used. Iin fact, these were the colors he designed and originally wove the Carolina tartan in. (see: http://www.carolinatartan.com/carolina2.jpg).
When Peter retired from full time weaving, he gave the specs of these colors to D. C. Dalgliesh to produce. So when I ordered your Carolina tartan, Dee, I specifically requested these colors.
Now, D. C. Dalgliesh also made the original large run of the Carolina tartan for the Cross Creek Pipes and Drums. (see: http://www.carolinatartan.com/Carolina_strip_1984.jpg) This is in their "reproduction" colors (what most other mills call "weathered"). D. C. Dalgliesh, many years ago (not sure when) was actually the first mill to offer tartans in these colors.
This is how the mill is used to producing the Carolina tartan, so unless you request something different (as I did for Dee's kilt), you'll likely get these colors.
Now, the cloth that Tartan Hiker has appears to be from the run of cotton cloth in the Carolina tartan, which is in different colors yet again (see: http://www.carolinatartan.com/carolina3.jpg) Mostly this is just due to the fact that it was woven by a different mill altogether, in a differnt medium.
My Carolina tartan kilt is in what we'd call today standard modern colors.
Ain't variety great?!
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 Originally Posted by Tartan Hiker
Looky what I have!

Now that is REALLY unfair to show that to the rest of us in NC!!! What are you going to do with it?
Brian
In a democracy it's your vote that counts; in feudalism, it's your Count that votes.
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 Originally Posted by BEEDEE
Now that is REALLY unfair to show that to the rest of us in NC!!! What are you going to do with it?
Brian
It's turning into a 4-yard box pleat. I just finished turning the hems, splitting, and joining it tonight. I already bored you with pics of my last box-pleat in process, so I'll wait until this one's done before I take any photos. My summer hiking job starts in about 2 weeks, so it will be seeing lots of duty soon.
Kilted Teacher and Wilderness Ranger and proud member of Clan Donald, USA
Happy patron of Jack of the Wood Celtic Pub and Highland Brewery in beautiful, walkable, and very kilt-friendly Asheville, NC.
New home of Sierra Nevada AND New Belgium breweries!
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Mark Twain
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Dee -
The green is not quite grass green but it is certainly brighter than olive. I think the monitor is washing it out a bit. The colors are like a fall day. I'm sure the piece you have must be the same material.
AllenJ - I agree that 11oz sounds a bit light but the drape and hand are really nice. I can see wearing this kilt year round. David did a great job and I think he put in close to a "full nine yards" because this thing has deep pleats and a shallow reveal.
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