Is Tweed Acceptably Traditional?

[figheadair]

Good point Michael. My vote would be for the tweed kilt not to match the jacket or waistcoat.

I've posted this before but to illustrate the point.



Hodden Grey kilt cWW1 and jacket from Marion Campbell's cloth.

I see tweed as being a type of cloth, specifically a rough woolen fabric made using mixed yarns, as you describe. Tartan, on the other hand, can be used to refer to both the pattern as well as cloth woven in the pattern. So it is entirely possible to have tweed cloth woven in a tartan pattern, and it ceases to be neither tweed nor tartan. The two terms are not exclusive.

You can indeed look at it that way Matt. For my part, I'm too stuck in the C18th tradition and thus plain or patterned tartan but no tweed.

Is tweed for kilts come in different weights similar to tartan ie 13 oz and 16 oz or is there a common weight for tweed?

There is no 'common' weight for tweed. Harris tweed used to be exclusively heavy and coarser than Border tweeds of the Estate Check type but in the 1970s the Harris Tweed Association tried various lighter weights and non-traditional (there's that word again) patterns principally for the American and Japanese markets. At one time they wove a feather weight but it was a fashion and didn't last.