Black Isle

**Pour1Malt** · 30th November 06, 03:44 AM

luekin guid!

**dwg** · 30th November 06, 04:09 AM

Originally Posted by Pour1Malt

luekin guid!

Thanks Rob you will see my new Kilts in January

Derek

**McClef** · 30th November 06, 04:48 AM

Originally Posted by Retro Red

I thought your surroundings looked familiar, Derek.

A fine looking kilt there, but it looks like a black kilt to me. How does the "Isle" part fit in there?
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It's named after the Black Isle, a peninsula north of Inverness between the Cromarty and Dornoch firths.

**Pour1Malt** · 30th November 06, 05:30 AM

the Black Isle is also where the origonal Ferintosh Whisky came frae!!!

**Jerry** · 30th November 06, 05:38 AM

It looks good, Derek. It looks like my Stillwater Black Shadow tartan. If I may ask, who made yours?

**katmills2005** · 30th November 06, 06:28 AM

I'm grateful for a high res monitor because that kilt is amazing. The tartan pattern shows up just perfectly for me. It would make a very striking dress kilt that is for certain.

**McClef** · 30th November 06, 07:54 AM

Originally Posted by Pour1Malt

the Black Isle is also where the origonal Ferintosh Whisky came frae!!!

n hame 'o Glenmorangie tae!

int:

**cessna152towser** · 30th November 06, 10:20 AM

The tartan can be made out in the first two photos, dwg69. Is this the same black kilt you were wearing in the recent thread started by Hamish entitled Kilted House Guests?
I'd be interested to know the difference between Black Isle and Dark Island, maybe the tartan patterns are different?

**RockyR** · 30th November 06, 01:58 PM

I think Matt Newsome was the one who told me how the mills do that to make the "Shadow tartans".

Basically, you have the same color wool, but 1 set of strands are spun one direction (clockwise) and 1 set is spun counterclockwise. When you weave them, you change the set of strands from clockwise to counter for a few threads and then back again. Weave the whole pattern this way.

When you look at the tartan in DIRECT light, it's tough to tell there's a pattern there. When you look at it on an angle, the light reflects differently off of the clockwise than it does the counterclockwise, so the tartan appears.

Neat, huh?