other random patterns

[Alan H]

Besides camouflage, can you think of other more-or-less random patterned cloth that might be able to be made into kilts?

Solid colors....good.
Camouflage ..... good.

Anything else?

[HenryT]

Madras...perhaps patched bleeding madras... changes with every wash.

[LitTrog]

Paisley! May not be wholly random, but it might present a fun challenge to pleat those sh***y little amoebas!

[RockyR]

Argyll pattern. I once tried to make a kilt on the bias as an experiment. The cloth was just way too stretchy on the bias (which I knew it would be, but I still had to be thick-headed and try it for myself). It was really a neat look, but wouldn't work for a kilt b/c of the stretch.

[The Wizard of BC]

Hawaiian prints.

[chrisupyonder]

Shibori

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Shibori (絞り染め Shiborizome?) is a Japanese term for several methods of dyeing cloth with a pattern by binding, stitching, folding, twisting, compressing it, or capping. Some of these methods are known in the West as tie-dye.


You could dye some cloth yourself.


Chris.

[Mickey]

How about tie dye? A tie dyed kilt might look pretty awesome, especially in the pleats.

[Alan H]

A quick search on shibori-dyed kilt turned up this...



Jilli Blackwood at "fiberfrolics"

http://fibrefrolics.wordpress.com/page/4/

Here's her website http://www.jilliblackwood.com/

Jilli Blackwood kilted skirt(s).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/craftscotland/4690537530/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/craftscotland/4703493414/

Those two are cool but this one, IMHO is *Something Else*...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/craftscotland/4313745184/

They've got over-aprons, they're got under-aprons. They've got pleats, they're tapered in the fell, they close with straps. Those are kilts, gang. But WOW. WOW

[TxScotsman]

Hawaiian prints.

That would work well on the cruise ship I work on

[Paul Henry]

wonderful thread , but where to start! just a few to start as I'm in a hurry to get out this morning, but as a kiltmaker I am very happy to experiment with all sorts of fabrics, either tradiitional or not, so I have just found the first few that might be interesting.