7yds of 60" weathered black watch

[Aspiringloser]

Nonsense! If I can do it, you can do it. Buy Barb's book and give it a go.

[Pleater]

How about making a kilt and a plaid to wear with it?

Plaids are useful on blustery days.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[Woodsheal]

Pretty sure Lochcarron is the only mill that weaves a light-weight Black Watch Weathered tartan, so that would make it from their 10 oz. "Reiver" line.

It would make an acceptable full-yardage (8 yd.) kilt, but is really too light for a reduced yardage "casual" kilt....

[madmacs]

Pretty sure Lochcarron is the only mill that weaves a light-weight Black Watch Weathered tartan, so that would make it from their 10 oz. "Reiver" line.

It would make an acceptable full-yardage (8 yd.) kilt, but is really too light for a reduced yardage "casual" kilt....

I'd be looking at a full 8 yds (well 7 i suspect)... Thinking i might have enough for a bias cut waistcoat and a pipers plaid too maybe...

Fabric is fairly old, and since I know that at the same time the only people I could find producing Maclean hunting was Locharron (compared to multiple choices now) I wouldnt be suprised if things were different back then, my weight measurement was fairly crude however so it might be 10oz... Will be cooler for summer than the 16oz at any rate...

[Damocles]

i have a kilt in 10oz but then again i live in southern Nevada where the temps go to 120fh in the summers i would do a summer casual kilt and maybe a vest or how about a nice hat one thing about lighter fabrics it is true they don't swing or hang like the 16oz but they take a pleating well and are easier to sew in the long run just my opinion and with heavy interfacing and the right wast binding it will hold just the same up top were lighter fabric wait could be a problem with stretching or showing under lines that sort of thing but i'm no expert have you asked Barbra T or one of the other kilt makers what they think?
Paul

[madmacs]

Well in the absence of instructions, engineers tend to play around...




Havent ripped the fabric to single width or anything like that yet, but figured i'd see what it looked like pinned... Of course calculations are a little "bag of a fag packet"

It's a 10.25" repeat, so 7 yds makes the pleats about 1.25" each with 18" ish aprons... Now when is this calculus malarky going to be useful for something?

[FatherWilliam57]

The coloring in those pleats would make that a very handsome kilt! (I think one of the seven deadly sins may be lurking at my door...)

[Damocles]

Well in the absence of instructions, engineers tend to play around...




Havent ripped the fabric to single width or anything like that yet, but figured i'd see what it looked like pinned... Of course calculations are a little "bag of a fag packet"

It's a 10.25" repeat, so 7 yds makes the pleats about 1.25" each with 18" ish aprons... Now when is this calculus malarky going to be useful for something?

i just thought of an idea, you can mount light wait fabric to make it more durabal. this is a process of adding a second layer of fabric on the back side. there is a special stitch used to sew the pieces to gather. its similar to a tailors tack you take small stitches each stitch splits the treads so it dosn't show threw to either the inside or out side layers vary time consuming. and of course iv not heard of any one doing this for a kilt but its done all the time in woman's catura when a fabric is to light for its intended perpes IE Jackets or paints. its like sewing two fabrics in a way that makes them act like one solid piece if your interested MSG me and explain the stitch to you.