Quote Originally Posted by robbiethepiper View Post
[i]Well, lass, it's the Kindall of Loch 'n Keynes Estate Plaid.

You see lass.....*make eyes at comely lass, innocently asking the question, here***

My great, great granddad was a Magnetician, and sailed all over the world in the days of magnetic discovery back in the late 1880's, for the Smithsonian Institution. He made quite a little fortune, collecting native artifacts in the Artic and whatnot and selling them in Europe and the States. When he retired in 1894, he bought a little estate along the shores of Loch 'n Keynes in Scotland.

Now, in those days, there was no such thing as all the generally-wearable tartans that we have now, so what he did was design a plaid pattern for his "estate". He had it made up, see, we have his notebook and it's all laid out there....why and just a few years ago, we opened up a trunk that had been in the attic for years and years and there was this swatch of cloth. We think it was probably from a jacket, or a vest.

So I took it to a weaver I know, and she wove a few yards for me and I made a kilt. So I call this the Kindall of Loch 'n Keynes Estate Plaid>>



In Scotland, general usage is that "tartan" is a pattern, "plaid" is a garment. Please feel free to ignore or dispute this information....
Oh, I know. This all should be taken very, very very much with ones tongue planted root-deep in ones cheek.