Buying a bolt of tartan fabric?

[ForresterModern]

You might want to be wary of ordering custom woven tartan as it often comes only as a single width at between 28 and 30" rather than the more standard woven tartans usually being double width at between 54-60". Single width fabric may limit how you can use it in certain pieces of attire, particularly womens long skirts. Should be fine for kilts. But better check what you are getting and what you are really going to need before ordering. Hate to see you compromise with something special like a major family event, which everybody wants to be perfect.

[Paul Henry]

You might want to be wary of ordering custom woven tartan as it often comes only as a single width at between 28 and 30" rather than the more standard woven tartans usually being double width at between 54-60". Single width fabric may limit how you can use it in certain pieces of attire, particularly womens long skirts. Should be fine for kilts. But better check what you are getting and what you are really going to need before ordering. Hate to see you compromise with something special like a major family event, which everybody wants to be perfect.

If you are getting it woven specially there are many weavers who who weave it double width without any problem, infact some weavers only have double width looms, Dalgleish is one of the few who will weave a short length on a single width, but prices for a double width are much more economic if you need a lot

[jhockin]

check out Fraser & Kirkbright, at; http://www.wooltartan.com/ ; at $30 per meter ( Canadian $'s!) ( same price whether 10 oz or anything up to 16oz.) , and a minimum 30 yd order, for custom weave, it is much cheaper than most Scottish mills. I wanted MacNaughton Ancient, so to afford the 30yd min. order, I advertised, on the 'for sale' section of this forum, to get enough other folks to join in, to make-up the full 30yd (you could order more than 30 yds, if you got more interest). There have been some occasional problems, with F&K orders, but Gordon, at F&K has, in my experience, always tried to 'make it right'. Also, some say that it isn't the same quality as the 'top' Scottish mills, but I've been very pleased with all the material I've bought there ( at less than 1/2 the price of the Scottish products).