Kilt weight 16 oz 18 oz

[The Wizard of BC]

Anne,

The width of the fabric used in the weight calculations is not standard. I know of two weavers who weave 60 inch wide fabric and use 60" X 36" = one fabric yard.

This is also why some weavers list their fabric at 15oz.

In practice I have used 60"x 36" as sort of a standard when figuring out fabric weights. This helps because it give a nice fudge factor for apron facings/waistbanding/straps & buckles/thread.

I also know of one weaver who measures their fabrics in metric and lists their fabrics not in oz per yard but in grams per meter².

All very confusing for newbies.

[Taskr]

Based on what I'm reading here, and thank you Barb for the other threads as well, we should be able to determine any sample of fabric weight by:

1944 ...... area ......... 1944 being 54x36 and area being that of the fabric sample
____ = ______
Xoz ....... weight ........ Xoz being the unknown and weight being that of the sample

therefore, if I had a 12 inch length of 54 width tartan weighing 3.2 oz

1944 ...... 635 ........... (1944x 3.2) / 635 = 9.79 or approx. 10oz weight
_____ = ______
Xoz ........ 3.2oz

That same length/width of cloth weighing 5.23oz would be a 16 oz weight: (1944x5.23)/635 = 16.01
which, by common check, a third of a yard (12") weighing about a third of 16oz hardly needs the calculation done as was also for the 10oz example. But, both examples give credence to the formula.

an eight yd 24" kilt, area 24x(36x8))= 6912, should by the formula weigh at least 3.56 lbs to be 16 oz, more given buckles, liner and such ...so the approximately 4lb estimate.

Or you could ask an old kiltie, who would pick it up and say something like...yep, weighs about a 16oz