Crotal kilt jacket?

[PiperPadre]

Would anyone on this forum have a recommendation for a vendor or tailor who makes crotal (or very nearly toned) kilt jackets?

For as popular as it once was, it seems to be rather elusive, most likely owing to the challenges of its production. Nonetheless, I'd imagine there must be dyes that approximate such a tonality.

[Troglodyte]

Crotal seems to be a bit indistinct as a colour, being redish-brown, and so open to great variation.

Your best bet would be to do an online search of weavers' cloths that fall into crotal shades, and then search for a tailor to make up the jacket in your desired style.

Bespoke tailors usually keep a wide range of swatch-books that show the options in colour, weight and texture of the cloths. The cloth is ordered-in as required.

The likes of St Kilda Store's online tailoring service offers both their stock cloths, and allows for the customer to specify a certain tweed or cloth if prefered, and various styles, combinations and details can be specified according to taste or desire. This allows you to decide on the stye and finish of the jacket, and specify the particular cloth - which gives you to get what you want, rather than what the retailer wants you to buy.

[figheadair]

Try Seaforth Tweed - https://www.facebook.com/SeaforthHar...5476101500223/

[PiperPadre]

Thank you, Troy and Peter, for your leads. Also, allow me to express a word of appreciation for your insights and observations throughout this site over the years.

[JPS]

Carloway Tweed Mill weave a few crotal tweeds. Something like this might be what you're after but browse their catalog.

[Troglodyte]

How about this, that our top tippler Charlie Maclean is togged-up in..?



Is this close to the colour and style you're after?

[PiperPadre]

Thank you, Troy and Peter, for your leads. Also, allow me to express a word of appreciation for your insights and observations throughout this site over the years.

My recently sacked social secretary just confessed to the typo above. Should have said "Trog" not "Troy". Hrumph.