Hand Sewn: Be All End All

[Bryan]

Tartan: Texas Bluebonnet (it's such a pretty tartan)
Fabric: 16oz Worsted
Yardage: 4yd
Custom: Box pleated by the great Matt Newsome
Why: It is the state I was born in, raised in, and proud to call home

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Tartan: Confederate Memorial
Fabric: 16oz Worsted
Yardage: 8yd
Custom: Pleated to the sett, 2 straps
Why: To honor my ancestors who fought and died for the Southern Confederacy

[H. Hastings]

There are so many tartans I want the only way I can get through this is by asking "if I could only get one more kilt, what would it be?"

tartan: MacLaren
weight: Strome yardage: 8 yds
customization: pleated to the sett; no belt loops; two buckles (handmade patternweld by a certain smith who frequents these forums)
why: MacLaren is the unofficial tartan of the Boy Scouts. My father was an executive for the B.S.A. for twenty years and my mother worked as a volunteer in Scouting for almost as long.

[Howard Clark]

I should have made buckles for the Tewksbury I ordered, too Harlan.

I did not realize such things were on your wish list (buckles). I'd trade you enough of them for several kilts, for that one Peter Johnsson sword you have!
(fat chance, I know)

[Stratherrick]

For me, my Hunting Fraser, my only kilt, is just fine - handmade in Inverness.

If money were no object, I'd have silver fittings to my sgian dubh with a real Cairngorm crystal set into it - I only know of one place that sells them, under the counter, as it's illegal to mine for them nowadays. THe one I fancy would cost about £150/$300

I'd keep my brass chain and belt buckle as they go with the colouring of the tartan, but a solid gold kilt pin wouldn't go amiss.

Good thread!

Bruce

[sirdaniel1975]

Tartan: The Mystery tartan trim from my Great Grandfather's Glengary
Fabric: 16oz Worsted
Yardage: 4yd
Custom: Box Pleat
Why: Unique and pride in my family


That's the Glengary, it's a child's glengary from c. 1880'a Glasgow

[Alan H]

My dream kilt is on order. I'm going to make it. The cloth is 13 ounce MacNaughton, weathered, from Fraser and Kirkbright.

But if I ever come into some serious spare cash, I'm going to buy 4 yards, double width of the Capercaillie tartan, 16 ounce, and schmooze way2fractious into making me a kilt, pleated to sett. So, two "dream" kilts.

[davedove]

Tartan: Dove
Weight: 16 oz.
Yardage: Full 9-yard knife pleated (I'm a big guy and need that extra yard)
Customization: pleated to sett, matching fly plaid
Why: Because it's MY tartan, but I'll have to get a custom run of cloth, so it will take a while before I have the money saved up.

I WILL have it one day.

[Panache]

Tartan: X Marks the Scot

Weight: 16 oz.

Yardage: Full 7 1/2 yard military box pleated

Customization: pleated to yellow stripe, matching fly plaid, two straps/buckles, interior lining a striking black and pink fabric, and special custom pink kilt garment bag. Made to the highest standards by a personal friend.

Why: It is a beautiful tartan that honors a diverse group of people that I am proud to be part of. I have more real connection to this tartan then any of the ones that I can state a link by blood to.

Oh, one more thing. I already own it!

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Cheers

Jamie

[sharpdressedscot]

Tartan: Red Morrison Modern
Weight: 16 oz
Yardage: maybe 5, I'm a small guy (28)
Customization: stripe... or sett, I dunno
Why: Family

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Tartan: X Marks the Scot
Weight: 16
Yardage: 5, do I need to explain again?
Customization: box pleated
why: ...why not?

[Scrapscot]

Tartan: The Highland Moon tartan (designed by Barbara McGowan)
Weight: 10-11oz (since Women's skirts are lighter)
Yardage: Whatever it takes to make it Hostess length for formal affairs.
Customization: Pleated to the Sett
why:: because it's the tartan of my shop






or: MacLeish
because it's one of my many family names
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