Help...Rankin Tartan

[bagpipeman]

I am Looking for the Rankin Tartan without taking off my arm ,Left leg, and my entire savings account.

[Nick the DSM]

where have you looked?

also the rankin's are a sept of maclean and you can get that tartan easier than you would a rankin. i beleive sportkilt and usakilt have them.

[Splash_4]

I am Looking for the Rankin Tartan without taking off my arm ,Left leg, and my entire savings account.

Try Matt Newsome at the Scottish Tartans Museum. He makes a very nice box pleated kilt.

It is a bit cheaper because he uses 4 yards of tartan instead of 8.

(and to boot, it is a really good feel to have less fabric on your backside)

[bagpipeman]

I Have the Maclean Hunting, Modern, Dress, Wearthered, Now I want MY TARTAN. btw, Rankin is large enough, Then as now, to be a clan all its own. There Must be some Rankins out there who would want the Family Tartan...Thanks for the suggestion though, I don't mean to sound ungreatful.

[sharpdressedscot]

I Have the Maclean Hunting, Modern, Dress, Wearthered, Now I want MY TARTAN. btw, Rankin is large enough, Then as now, to be a clan all its own. There Must be some Rankins out there who would want the Family Tartan...Thanks for the suggestion though, I don't mean to sound ungreatful.

I have a Rankin as one of my best friends and I think he said he had his "family tartan" but maybe it's maclean. I'll try to see what it is.

[TXPAScot]

I Have the Maclean Hunting, Modern, Dress, Wearthered, Now I want MY TARTAN. btw, Rankin is large enough, Then as now, to be a clan all its own. There Must be some Rankins out there who would want the Family Tartan...Thanks for the suggestion though, I don't mean to sound ungreatful.

Hello! I'm one of those Rankins who would like a kilt in my family's tartan. I told my wife I want the kilt for my 50th birthday, and she's digging. If anyone knows any sources (for mediumweight), I'd appreciate your sharing them with us.

[macwilkin]

Please post all tartan-related threads in this section.

Thanks!

Todd

[The Wizard of BC]

I can find no mill that offers either of the registered Rankin Tartans as a stock weaving.

This leaves you with only a special weave.

If you contact Matt Newsome he has some contacts for special weaves that are very reasonably priced. You can order one kilts worth of single width fabric.

[ForresterModern]

There are two blue and green Rankin tartans which are custom weaves and thus likely expensive. As above best bet is to find your kilt maker and let them order precisely what they need to make you a kilt.

There is another red-black-blue-green-white Rankin tartan listed on Scotweb's tartan list as a standard weave from Dalgleish's Artisan Weaver collection:

http://www.scotweb.co.uk/tartan/Rank...rchterm=rankin

It lists there as either 16 or 12 oz tartan in double width with minimum order lengths of 4 and 1 meter respectively. Not too expensive at roughly $53US per meter double width for the 16oz. Dalgleish fabric is luxurious and very well made, as I have a couple pieces of their fabric waiting to be made into kilts whenever the finances come around. If this is the Rankin you are looking for this is a sweet deal. Don't forget to access Scotweb by clicking on their advert upper right corner of most XMTS pages which gets you the xmarks discount price, about 10% off their regular prices.

For a little over $200 you can have the fabric for a nice 8 yarder, for $100+ enough for a Newsome 4 yd box pleat. Or you can have Scotweb just make up an 8 yd Balmoral kilt for less than $340US. Not bad deals for a less than common tartan.

[The Barry]

There's no way to get around it, really. A more obscure tartan such as Rankin is going to have to be produced via a special weave. This will make it more expensive. Perhaps several Rankin clan members could get together and go in on a weaving to distribute the cost a bit.