Kilt with no hair canvas

[bonnie heather]

That's so strange! It's hard to imagine that anyone would forget or neglect to put in the back canvas for reinforcing the pleats. Yikes!

I think it's very interesting to alter and repair kilts because when seeing what's inside a well made kilt, one can learn a lot about how to construct a kilt skillfully.
But sometimes it's quite a shock to see the opposite, as in this example. Wow!

[Barb T]

When I hear someone claim that they can make a hand sewn trad kilt in 10 hours, this is the sort of short-cut that I imagine must have to happen in order to make that possible. Although just leaving out the canvas wouldn't come close to shaving enough time off the process, I can imagine other equally hidden (and, to my mind, unacceptable) shortcuts that could add up to a significant cutting of production time.