Let's Talk Buckles

[TheOfficialBren]

Gotcha. Thanks, chaps.
Kyle and Allen: Those are very nice, gentlemen.

I'm considering using Barb's book to make a tank in the Shaw (Modern colours) sometime during 2014. I also want to refurbish an otherwise nice kilt with the proper internal construction and add buckles to a velcro kilt that otherwise nice, as well.

[Tobus]

Brass and brown is fabulous with a weathered tartan...

I couldn't agree more!

(This is one of Barb T's creations.)

[TheOfficialBren]

I couldn't agree more!

(This is one of Barb T's creations.)

Sharp, sharp, sharp!!

Man, I am on a brown kick lately.

[OC Richard]

Army kilt have black buckles no matter what tartan, black buckles with two prongs



And green binding.

[Grizzled Ian]

OC Richard,

I have a couple of pieces of heavy-weight tartan that would be suitable for making box-pleated kilts in the military style. I have a recollection that you have done repairs in the past on military kilts, and may be able to help here. Are the double-prong buckles, and therefore the straps as well, the same width as the regular single-prong ones? Do you have any trouble sourcing them online? The Buckle guy perhaps? Tandy?

And the green binding, is that a sturdy cotton; and what width; and what colour is it? I assume that green binding works best on tartans based on the Campbell sett; and I know that a piece of scrap tartan is used for the waist-band otherwise. Do you know if bindings in other solid colours have been used for non-Campbell based tartans? I am thinking of the Australia tartan as an example (see Antipodean Celt's avatar), for which an ochre binding might work well.

Thank you,

[Downunder Kilt]

Kilts that have been made for the Australian Army in the Australian tartan, in the past, have used a black twill binding, as per photos below.
Australian tartan kilt - Rear.jpg
Australian tartan kilt - inside.jpg
Photos courtesy of English Bloke