Ebay tartan fabric quality

[Mark Keeney]

Some Tartan is for sale on ebay and it states it is from Peter MacArthur of Hamilton. Does anyone know about this weaver and it's quality?

Thanks

[Pleater]

That is probably the same source as the tartan I just bought - a 16oz and a 13/14 oz, one an 8 yard kilt length and one a 4 yard piece.

Unfortunatly I don't have any other tartan to compare it with, but as a piece of fabric each one is perfect with a good selvage, it is almost evenly woven and heavy, dense stuff. By evenly woven I mean that the pattern is almost square. Theoreticaly the patterns should be perfectly square, but in fact - I read here - they are not. This is close to being square.

The cloth is slightly rough to the touch, but I think that is typical of worsted type cloth, and my dad's tweed jackets were certainly rougher than this stuff.

For the price I think it is a bargain, and I could certainly have spent several hundred pounds on it, quite happily.

[Howard Clark]

I purchased some of that material. I liked it and have made one kilt from it. I sent some of it to Matt Newsome to make a box pleat for me, and he liked it too. That's enough for me.

[Barb T]

Being the tartan junkie that I am, I bid on the 17 oz Hunter that he had up, and I won the bid. It just arrived this morning, and it is _beautiful_ stuff. Very nice hand, and a gorgeous selvedge.

Barb