Steve

Interesting tip about fabric weight being calculated from spool weight! Now that I think about it, most hand weavers think about weaving thread in terms of yards of thread per ounce or pound (otherwise, it would be hard to figure out how many ounces of thread to buy for a project that you knew required, say, 1000 yards for the warp). So, maybe the key here is knowing that someone is talking about ounces per yard (for tartan), rather than yards per ounce (for weaving thread).

Steve's advice for selecting fabric based on "hand" sounds _great_. I can see that it's much harder to choose successfully for a non-traditional kilt!

One of these days, I'm going to try a non-traditional kilt, and I'll need all the help I can get selecting fabric. Actually, I'm dying to make a leather kilt, and I'll be back for _lots_ of advice on that one!!

Cheers,

Barb