source for this or similar plaid/tartan ?

hello,

Does anyone know of a fabric site that has a big collection of (inexpensive - $10) tartans/plaids like in the link below ?

I am trying to find the following tartan/plaid ("stewart modern black") or similar but not at $50 a yard. (or maybe that is considered a great price ???? )

do not really want wool, a flannel or cotton or blends would beprefered/

Anyways, I have looked at the big fabric places like ...

fabric.com denverfabrics,com discountfabricusa.com

800fabrics.com fabricfabric.net hartsfabric.com house-of-tartan scottish trading company trendyfabrics.com

etc.... with no joy.

thanks for any help/suggestions, robb

You might find something that would work here:

have often found just the right thing in a tablecloth and used it for fabric.

Also, several of the online tartan shops offer tartans in cotton or cotton/poly blends. For instance:

Beverly

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non-specific plaid

Thanks Kate,

I was worried i might need to pay real money. I was hoping it was popular/common tartan/plaid somewhere. I guess i have become to accustom to getting by with whatever discount/remnant/sale fabric i find.

Now i want to try something specific.

Thanks for the links and reality check,

robb .

>> > > $50.00 a yard would be quite inexpensive for a true wool> tartan. Ask me how I know...>

> I have often found just the right thing in a tablecloth and> used it for fabric.>

Thanks Beverly,

Between you and Kate and a few others i can always count on a reality check.

I may just need to buy a discount (not $600) kilt in my desired tartan .... apparently kilts can contain 8+ yards of fabric 8^O what !!! where do they put all that fabric ?

thanks for the links and info ,

robb

Keep in mind that an "eight-yard" kilt contains eight yards of 36" wide fabric, the old standard. Most tartans are now woven on 54" or 60" looms, so you need four yards, which you tear down the middle and then join end-to-end to make the kilt. The selvedge forms the bottom, there is no hem. "All that fabric" goes into very deep pleats (there can be as much as 8 inches of fabric in a pleat with a .75"-to-1" exposed face) around the back half or so of a kilt. The apron and under apron are approximately 1/3 to 1/2 of the hip measurement, several inches of fabric are in the fringe and finished edges of the aprons, etc. To see how the measurements are made:

a really good book on making your own genuine kilt, I highly recommend "The Art of Kiltmaking" by Barbara Tewksbury and Elsie Stuehmeyer. found the instructions to be invaluable when I made my first real kilt. I am about to undertake my second one, from tartan purchased in Scotland by my DGD's dance teacher. It took me over 44 hours to make the first one, almost entirely sewn by hand, so I can easily understand why kilts range $400 and up.

You're welcome,

Beverly

Groan... Giggle! 'Reality check' indeed! :D

I'm just finishing a skirt in the Royal Naval Association tartan for a customer: £57 per meter, including VAT:

's enough left for her hubby to have a weskit. he's going to get the right uniform buttons for it. Very splendid stuff.

In the pleats. :D

Have fun - make your own! ;)

If you choose not to make your own kilt, you may find something affordable here:

Beverly

I just ifnished making a kilt, and the answer is, IN THE PLEATS. It took hours to put in all those little pleats.

Jon

>>> I have often found just the right thing in a tablecloth and>> used it for fabric.>>

Some suppliers of off-the-rack kilts around or under USD 100:

-- their "Thrifty Kilt" is aroundUSD 30. (The links came from what it's worth, a 4-yard kilt, which kiltmakers also make, hasas much claim to be called "traditional" and is considered by manyto be more practical, even if some kilt snobs sneer at it. Just as wearable, and as it uses less of that expensive tartan wool, it's thriftier. (Now _that's_ traditional Scottish!)

Here in Florida it is rare to see a kilt and especially here at the RV/ caravan park I live at during the winter in a mobile home. This morning we played our first game of Bocce and one of the guys showed up wearing a RTW kilt made of tan khaki. I didn't get a chance to really talk to him to ask where he bought it, but it had an RT (?) label on the back, similar to the patch on the back of jeans. Maybe he will wear it tomorrow and I will try to find out where he got it. Barbara in Florida

It may be a "UtiliKilt":

Beverly

Thanks Kathleen! Barbara

scotclans had written this in response to

:hello

Take a look at:

is a huge selection of Scottish Plaids (or tartans as we call ithere :-))

We also have a lot of tartans in our office - so just contact us if there's one you specifically want

thanks Amanda

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