USA Kilts Closing...

**MACKAY** · 25th January 06, 06:44 AM

Originally Posted by RockyR

This place (Scotland, not the post office) is AMAZING!

Ahhh.. Rocky caught the bug. This will undoubtedly turn into a yearly ... no wait semi annual ... better yet quarterly 'business' trip. :-)

Can’t wait to see all the goodies USAKilts will have for sale when they get back!

Brian Mackay - Another Yank with a passport full of stamps from Gatwick and Heathrow.

**RockyR** · 31st January 06, 06:39 AM

We're back and WOW do we have a LOAD of info! Little "Arran knit" kilt hose and hand knit sweaters from the banks of Loch Lommond. Tartan Flat caps. Soaps from the Isle of Skye. Rugby Jerseys and Kilt Jackets from the oldest Kiltmaker on the Royal Mile. Tartan books out the Wazzoo (Strathmore, MM, complete HOE collection and now WELSH tartans!)... LOTS of new product lines going to be coming straight from Scotland.

The next big fight... Kelly and I deciding what we'll get first!

**mddock58** · 31st January 06, 06:51 AM

Welcome back!
Now it's back to the harrassing!

Hope it was worth it!

**KiltedCodeWarrior** · 31st January 06, 07:49 AM

Originally Posted by RockyR

...Tartan books out the Wazzoo (Strathmore, MM, complete HOE collection and now WELSH tartans!)...

Welcome bakc! And Rob now knows where his next kilt will be coming from!

**Schultz** · 31st January 06, 08:06 AM

Originally Posted by RockyR

The next big fight... Kelly and I deciding what we'll get first!

First and foremost, more tartan choices!!!!

**646guy** · 31st January 06, 09:22 AM

Is it just me or is the "Casual Tartan Gallery" on the USA Kilts site not working for anyone else

**auld argonian** · 31st January 06, 09:35 AM

I tried it yesterday and got some internet letter-salad instead of images.

AA

billmcc · 31st January 06, 11:06 AM

Originally Posted by RockyR

We're back and WOW do we have a LOAD of info!

Rocky,

Did you find a source for heavyweight pv material?

**RockyR** · 31st January 06, 11:45 AM

tartan choices... HAHAHAHA. We got a New tartan swatch book from MM, 1 from Strathmore, 1 from a WELSH tartan company and ordered 6 from HOE. Choices?!?! Choices we gots...

The Casual and Semi Trad pics are down... Hank is on it. We had a few that weren't on the site that he's going to add. Should be fixed soon.

YES, we FOUND a source for 16 oz PV. We WON'T be using it. I got the swatches in the mail today. They are NOWHERE NEAR the quality we're aiming for and people have come to expect from us. In the past (1.5 years ago), we made a conscious decision to really "Step up" our cloth choices. We've been "weeding out" the poorer quality materials we have and going forward, will only buy PV and materials we deem "high quality" for our casual and Semi Trad kilts. The 16 oz PV we got in the mail was a Pakistani source (where, to my knowledge, ALL of the 16 oz PV is made). It was not teflon coated and had a strange feel to it. It was loosely woven (compared to MM PV) and didn't look like it would hold up well to repeated washings.