Stillwater questions

[Kilted Stuart]

David,
I agree there is always a need for a kilt to wear around when the good wool one won't do. But I personally think there are kiltmakers here in Canada and the US that will make a custom kilt for you in whatever fabric fits your needs. It feels better to order a kilt from someone here than a factory in Pakistan. We keep the buisness here, unless we order straight from Scotland. Too many good things are being lost in North America because we keep looking elseware to save a few bucks. Some things are worth the few dollars it takes to get custom products.

A lot of these kiltmakers will make a kilt in washable PV, Denim, Poly Wool blends, couduroy, in all tartans and color solids and water treated camo. Whatever you need is out there hand made in your size for you and you only. It's not mass produced in quantities in basic size (ie 34'' waist 23'' long, 43'' waist 24'' long) and sold to distributers for a few bucks a kilt. You order, they go in the warehouse, grab the size and it's at you door in days. The price is right and the speed is right because they get them really cheap and pre- made. Some people they fit well right off the rack. Some people pay to have them altered to fit. They could have gotten the right thing first instead of an ill fitting garment.

Maybe i've been spoiled but I feel better in a kilt made for me in various fabrics and tartans ( family tartans included) that are skillfully and lovingly made for me. There just seems to me to be more to a kilt this way.
They seem to mean more to me. I'll pay a few extra bucks for that.

Kilted Stuart

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

That's a Freelander sporran! For not too much, you too can have one. Search the board and you will find links to their site.

[Jeremiah]

I found the link. However, there doesn't appear to be a price list or ordering information.

[bubba]

I found the link. However, there doesn't appear to be a price list or ordering information.

You have to email David

[Iolaus]

[davedove]

That’ll go right to his head.
BTW - Wasn’t Iolaus Hercules’ cousin, or something?

From mythweb, Iolaus was the son of Heracles (Hercules in Roman mythology) half-brother Iphicles.

Iolaus (eye-oh-LAY-us)
Son of Iphicles who helped Heracles slay the Hydra. Iolaus was his uncle Heracles's charioteer. When in the course of one of his Labors the great hero sought the Hydra in the swamps of Lerna, Iolaus conveyed him there in his chariot. And when Heracles discovered that hacking off any one of the Hydra's multiple heads caused two more to grow in its place, Iolaus came to his rescue. Each time a head was lopped, he cauterized the monster's neck with a torch before the others could sprout.

This ends your humanities lecture for the day.8-)

[Pleater]

David,
Maybe i've been spoiled but I feel better in a kilt made for me in various fabrics and tartans ( family tartans included) that are skillfully and lovingly made for me. There just seems to me to be more to a kilt this way.
They seem to mean more to me. I'll pay a few extra bucks for that.

Kilted Stuart

I sometimes feel that I am a dying breed, unappreciated, despite my almost 50 years of making garments.

Seek out your local seamstress, by recomendation if possible, cheer her day with a quality cloth and clear instructions - they can be downloaded or you can get books, get a real kilt to show her, if you can, and then cross your fingers and hope that you have found someone who really likes getting things right.

Who knows you might find someone you can recomend to those who admire your new kilt, and so boost a diminutive local business.

I'm having to put kilt making on hold to make 14 curtains for the front of the house - the ones up there are the ones I ran up quickly when we moved here and that was about twenty five years ago. I have been meaning to replace them for - about twenty five years. It shouldn't take long - not with some good kilt materials just waiting for my attention as soon as I can get back to them.

[bubba]

I'm having to put kilt making on hold to make 14 curtains for the front of the house - the ones up there are the ones I ran up quickly when we moved here and that was about twenty five years ago. I have been meaning to replace them for - about twenty five years. It shouldn't take long - not with some good kilt materials just waiting for my attention as soon as I can get back to them.

I get a mental image of pleated tartan curtains.

[Pleater]

With windows the size of ours?

We'd need a second mortgage - though it is a Victorian red brick villa - I can just visualise it 'Balmoralised' as for Queen Victoria with tartans everywhere.

No - a nice light blue with a floral pattern downstairs and silver grey ditto upstairs, but each curtain is over 2 metres drop and will be HEAVY, just womanhandling the bolts of material for measuring and cutting will be a challenge, and several curtains will be over one width of the fabric.

Ah well, the sooner I make a start the sooner it will be done, and the rooms will look so much better with decent curtains.