Unfortunately, if you want a specific tartan, you will probably have to pay real money for it. If you would be happy with a non-specific plaid type fabric, how about these:
Unfortunately, if you want a specific tartan, you will probably have to pay real money for it. If you would be happy with a non-specific plaid type fabric, how about these:
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 ???? )
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.cometc.... with no joy.
thanks for any help/suggestions, robb
You might find something that would work here:
Also, several of the online tartan shops offer tartans in cotton or cotton/poly blends. For instance:
Beverly
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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 .
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:
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:
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
Some suppliers of off-the-rack kilts around or under USD 100:
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
Take a look at:
We also have a lot of tartans in our office - so just contact us if there's one you specifically want
thanks Amanda
Kate XXXXXX wrote:
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