dc dalgliesh kilt

**TheOfficialBren** · 26th June 14, 02:30 PM

Yeah...Dalgliesh is very, very nice cloth.

I just received a swatch from Lochcarron. I really love my House of Edgar Nevis but DANG! I can immediately see the difference in quality between the two. HOE's Nevis range is very nice tartan, don't get me wrong, but now I wish I'd just paid the extra surcharge and been done with it. You guys are spot-on about that stuff!

**Nathan** · 26th June 14, 02:54 PM

I have kilts from Lochcarron, House of Edgar and a military kilt from an as yet to be determined mill. They are both very nice. I really like the hand of my house of edgar 13oz kilts and the selvedge is smoother.

My 16oz strome 8 yard kilt is very heavy. Two skirt hangers weren't enough as the pleat side hanger kept breaking, so now I use THREE hangers for that one kilt.

I find the 13oz House of Edgar to be the perfect blend of structure, comfort and weight. We'll see if I change my mind if I ever get some cloth that's woven by Dagliesh.

**TheOfficialBren** · 26th June 14, 03:26 PM

I think my next one will be 16oz Strome (probably 8 yards), Dalgliesh is tempting but certainly down the road a piece.

**BBNC** · 29th June 14, 03:03 AM

Originally Posted by Nathan

I have kilts from Lochcarron, House of Edgar and a military kilt from an as yet to be determined mill. They are both very nice. I really like the hand of my house of edgar 13oz kilts and the selvedge is smoother.

My 16oz strome 8 yard kilt is very heavy. Two skirt hangers weren't enough as the pleat side hanger kept breaking, so now I use THREE hangers for that one kilt.

I find the 13oz House of Edgar to be the perfect blend of structure, comfort and weight. We'll see if I change my mind if I ever get some cloth that's woven by Dagliesh.

My kilt bag, "The Kilt Kit" has hangers made with 3 metal bars, each bar having two movable clips, and hangs my 10yd, 15oz wool Dalgleish tank perfectly, with no sign of slippage or breakage. The hangers are available separately for $20.00 each. Very nice, high quality hangers, by the way.

**Farmer Jones** · 29th June 14, 03:18 AM

My kilt in progress is a 15 oz custom weave from Dalgleish. When my kilt maker looked for sources of the material, she made a few noises of dismay when she found that it was only woven by Dalgleish. Her problem has nothing to do with their quality, but she seems to think they can be slow and not adhere to agreed delivery schedules. She told me there have been recent changes in management and they are now a little more difficult to deal with. My new kilt is due for pickup within the next week, and I will ask her to amplify on this issue when I see her.

**BBNC** · 30th June 14, 06:12 AM

Originally Posted by Mudge

This is Barb working on my kilt while on her trip in Iceland.
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I don't know who made my kilt at Dalgliesh, but how did you folks get pictures?

**OC Richard** · 30th June 14, 06:23 AM

Originally Posted by unixken

Nick happened to have been at the Dalgliesh mill on the day Helen was finishing up one of my kilts, and snapped this photo for me...

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What a beautiful kilt! Wonderful colours and a nice big 'man-sized' sett.

I'm not a fan of Buchanan in 'modern' colours but in ancient, muted, weathered, or reproduction the tartan is lovely.

**OC Richard** · 30th June 14, 06:35 AM

Originally Posted by Nathan

I have kilts from Lochcarron, House of Edgar and a military kilt from an as yet to be determined mill.

Are you saying that you have a vintage military kilt from an unknown mill? If so, that brings up an interesting thing, that during The First World War kilts were made and tartan woven on an incredibly vast scale, a scale unimaginable before or after. I would imagine that a large number of mills which had not previously woven kilt tartan were pressed into such service, both in Britain and in Canada.

It would be similar to the situation in firearms here in the USA, where one comes across, for example, military pistols made by sewing machine companies.

I just looked it up, there were around 95 kilted Highland battalions in WWI in Scotland alone. That's a very large number of kilts!

**unixken** · 30th June 14, 06:46 AM

Originally Posted by BBNC

I don't know who made my kilt at Dalgliesh, but how did you folks get pictures?

In the case of the photo that I posted, of Helen finishing up one of my Buchanans, Nick Fiddes just happened to have been at the Dalgliesh mill that day, and snapped the photo for me with his iPhone. It wasn't something I'd asked him to do, nor was it something I was expecting. But a print now sits in a 5x7 frame on my desk.

**unixken** · 30th June 14, 06:57 AM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

What a beautiful kilt! Wonderful colours and a nice big 'man-sized' sett.

I'm not a fan of Buchanan in 'modern' colours but in ancient, muted, weathered, or reproduction the tartan is lovely.

I understand and agree whole-heartedly. I have a Buchanan in Lochcarron's modern palette, and it is quite vivid and bright. But the subdued colors of Dalgliesh's "Reproduction" palette are so much earthier... they really are gorgeous.