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    Quote Originally Posted by paulhenry View Post
    I'm very interested in finding out the source for the right sporran belt. I love the simplicity of the way it works!

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    Another Matt Newsome box pleat in Harris Tweed:



    I also have a matching waistcoat and box-pleat, if I can find the pictures ...

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    Did someone say tweed?



    Lovely Stuff...

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    Finding the fabric is easy, and doesn't have to cost a lot. Get on eBay, type "Wool tweed fabric" into the eBay browser and see what comes up. I have purchased a number of fabrics from an eBay merchant in London, who offers some very fine tweed fabrics. Her ebay store name is "Favourite Fabrics". Very good about shipping in timely fashion and no B.S.

    Also, if you search eBay for tartan fabric, there is a merchant on the Isle of Lewis, who is selling four metre lengths of single width Harris tweed. enough for a box pleat, but I don't remember what "single-width" translates to in inches. by her reckoning.

    Might be too short for a kilt........

    The point is that there are some bargains out there if you know where to look.

    Fide et Fortitudine, aye!

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    Don't even get me started on how much I love tweed!

    Since you are thinking of a tweed Kinguisse pleated kilt, I'll start with pics of this one I made for myself with a Kinguisse pleat.

    These first two are from the Gatlinburg Scottish Festival last May. I have a full kilt suit in this tweed, but in this case I swapped the matching tweed vest for a tartan waistcoat. The fist image shows the Kinguisse pleating.




    These pictures show the matching tweed waistcoat (worn in this case with a tartan kilt).




    Now the jacket alone with tartan kilt.


    Lastly, the tweed kilt and jacket together (these pics were taken just last Thursday on my way in to the museum).




    Oddly enough, I don't seem to have any photos that show the whole tweed kilt suit (jacket, waistcoat and kilt) worn together! But I think the above photos serve to show just how versitile a tweed kilt suit can be. If the tweed you select goes well with your tartan, then with a tartan kilt, tweed kilt, tartan waistcaot, tweed waistcoat, and tweed jacket you can mix and match to come up with a wide variety of different outfits and looks.

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    Wow - everyone - great tweed pictures - makes me wish I had cash for a few of them versus just one! I do like the solid color tweeds but do think something with a slight pattern - would suit me more...

    Quote Originally Posted by M. A. C. Newsome View Post
    Since you are thinking of a tweed Kinguisse pleated kilt, I'll start with pics of this one I made for myself with a Kinguisse pleat.

    These first two are from the Gatlinburg Scottish Festival last May. I have a full kilt suit in this tweed, but in this case I swapped the matching tweed vest for a tartan waistcoat. The fist image shows the Kinguisse pleating.
    This is great - I was curious what a Kinguisse pleat would look like in tweed! This isn't a reverse Kinguisse is it? Also seeing it in a box pleat is also enticing!

    Thanks!
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    Quote Originally Posted by nh_maclean View Post
    This is great - I was curious what a Kinguisse pleat would look like in tweed! This isn't a reverse Kinguisse is it? Also seeing it in a box pleat is also enticing!

    Thanks!
    Noah
    Nope. So long as the pleats face front in each direction, as in Matt's kilt, it is a Kingussie style. Were they to face rearward, and have no central box pleat, that would be a reverse Kingussie.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ryan Ross View Post
    Nope. So long as the pleats face front in each direction, as in Matt's kilt, it is a Kingussie style. Were they to face rearward, and have no central box pleat, that would be a reverse Kingussie.
    Actually, 'reversed' Kingussie-pleated kilts can have a central box pleat. I prefer to make them that way.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mac Ghille Sheathanaich View Post
    Finding the fabric is easy, and doesn't have to cost a lot. Get on eBay, type "Wool tweed fabric" into the eBay browser and see what comes up. I have purchased a number of fabrics from an eBay merchant in London, who offers some very fine tweed fabrics. Her ebay store name is "Favourite Fabrics". Very good about shipping in timely fashion and no B.S.

    Also, if you search eBay for tartan fabric, there is a merchant on the Isle of Lewis, who is selling four metre lengths of single width Harris tweed. enough for a box pleat, but I don't remember what "single-width" translates to in inches. by her reckoning.

    Might be too short for a kilt........

    The point is that there are some bargains out there if you know where to look.

    Fide et Fortitudine, aye!

    T.
    Generally speaking "single width" Harris tweed is about 30" wide, give or take. That should work well for a kilt.

    FYI, the green tweed I'm wearing in my previous post was an Ebay find.

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    My first tweed kilt suit, made from Harris Tweed.


    Here I am on the right at the Foothills Highland Games in 2007. On the left you see a wonderful tweed inverness cape.


    Again, showing the versatility of the tweed kilt suit, here are the jacket and waistcoat worn with a tartan kilt.


    And the tweed kilt being worn on it's own, sans jacket and waistcoat.


    (Yes, that is a small chicken I'm holding. No, I'm not choking it.)

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