Originally Posted by
Mac Ghille Sheathanaich
I just made and sent a kilt to a pal of mine in Dumfries. I'm bugging him for pictures at this point.
I have shown a pic of it in the DIY forum. It is made in the Leslie M.C. and was the tartan of "The King's Own Scottish Borderers".
My friend is a tour guide at Drumlanrig Castle and works kilted every day.
Regards aye,
T.
As a Lowland regiment, the KOSBs wore trews in the Leslie tartan as per the Earl of Leven--only their pipers wore kilts, and their kilts and plaids were in the Royal Stuart tartan. See the KOSBs website here: http://www.kosb.co.uk/insignia.htm .
"Before two notes of the theme were played, Colin knew it was Patrick Mor MacCrimmon's 'Lament for the Children'...Sad seven times--ah, Patrick MacCrimmon of the seven dead sons....'It's a hard tune, that', said old Angus. Hard on the piper; hard on them all; hard on the world." Butcher's Broom, by Neil Gunn, 1994 Walker & Co, NY, p. 397-8.
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