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    Any training available in England for wannabe kiltmakers?

    Okay, to all and sundry, but especially the UK contingent, I absolutely love making kilts, and would really like to be able to do it to a professional level, but you know what it's like, where to get the training? I have stood for hours hand -sewing kilts for myself, a sporran as well, but there's a point at which I want more, better, I want to be doing it for real, do you understand?
    The only thing I can find near me is a course for 'machine embroidery', which is great for decorating the front apron, but little else, anyone any ideas?

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    From the other side of the Big Water:

    http://www.celticdragonpress.com/

    Barb T is, out in the non-ISH world, Barbara Tewksbury. So far as I know, this is THE STRAIGHT WORD on kilt making. Those of us here who make kilts (not me, not yet) all seem to regard this book as the "straight gee".

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    Scotland...the Keith Kilt School, I think is the only formal one, where Kathy Lare trained.

    http://www.moraygateway.com/page.php?id=1097



    Ron
    Ol' Macdonald himself, a proud son of Skye and Cape Breton Island
    Lifetime Member STA. Two time winner of Utilikiltarian of the Month.
    "I'll have a kilt please, a nice hand sewn tartan, 16 ounce Strome. Oh, and a sporran on the side, with a strap please."

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