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PS - Does anyone know know the time difference between handsewing and machinesewing? Barb made a good point that it takes less time to sew by machine, so I'm feeling less guilty about the labor rate.
It's not easy to give a comparison, as they are different products, it might take me 25 hours to hand sew a traditional 8 yard kilt, but I can probably machine sew about 2 of my 5-6 yard contemporary ones in a day. I do a little machine sewing on my trad ones for the waistband, and a certain amount of hand sewing on my contemporary ones. The kilts look and feel different , some hand stitching is almost impossible to replicate my machine, and heavy cloth sewing is so easy by machine and a real chore by hand.
Machine sewn kilts can be well sewn or badly sewn, exactly as a hand sewn can be beautiful or clumsy, it's so much to do with the tailor or creator, sorry not much of an answer for you!