creating your own tartan

[Daneel]

Hi All, I would like to create a tartan of my own. A design that I could use for a casual kilt and maybe for a formal one as well. Has anyone tryed to create a tartan themselves or get one woven, registered etc. I would be interested in all possibilities as I fancy a Hill Walker kilt made by http://www.hector-russell.com/html/k...n/12_hill.html.
Happy Kilting
Daneel

[Blu (Ontario)]

Hi Daneel... Here is a link you may or may not have looked at. Just in case, I'll post it again.

http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland....ver/index.html

Quite interesting to play with. Getting the fabric registered or woven is a bit of an expense though. Hope you've got deep pockets.

blu

[Vince]

Hi Daneel -
Those Hill Walkers are nice. Other people have looked into custom tartans and found that design and registration aren't too hard. The problem is how much do you want to pay for someone to weave the cloth. Generally there is a minimum yardage order and for 13 oz wool you are looking at a minumum of about $60.00 yard.

Best of luck.

[Jimmy Carbomb]

I think my tartan will be a solid green... and I won't even register it. Easy to weave. Easy to find. Easy to sew-up. Easy to hide the stains when my nose drips.

Let us know if you pursue the tartan registering thing. I would LOVE to know what it's like these days. 8)

[Chris]

I came very close to having my own only family tartan designed and registered. I've always been very keen on the idea. However, the cost was prohibitive. Actually, it was my wife that prohibited me spending the money on it!

If you've got the coin, there are a number of places that will handle the design and registration for you.

[phil h]

Hi All, I would like to create a tartan of my own. A design that I could use for a casual kilt and maybe for a formal one as well. Has anyone tryed to create a tartan themselves or get one woven, registered etc. I would be interested in all possibilities as I fancy a Hill Walker kilt made by http://www.hector-russell.com/html/k...n/12_hill.html.
Happy Kilting
Daneel

I was going to do it, got all the info from TFCK
got a couple of price lists if you like.
would have cost me over$1000 CDN.
I even suggested a fellowship or universal tartan for one of the boards, if we all put in a few $'s and get our own bravehearts tartan, but not a lot of people would commit, even tho they where interested.

[erudite]

So what does one get for 1000 CDN? or is that just the set up cost?

$60/yard seems reasonable for 13 oz.. What's the min. yardage?

[phil h]

So what does one get for 1000 CDN? or is that just the set up cost?

$60/yard seems reasonable for 13 oz.. What's the min. yardage?

you get one kilt made.
e.g. poly/viscose whitch I wanted.
minimum was 142 yards@ 10.50 puonds per yard
1 kilt in a 8yard wool was $ 1,110.00 USD
too mucking fuch if you ask me.

[erudite]

OK, 1 kilt @ 8 yards, + 134 unused yards of fabric, or potentially 16 more 8 yard kilts @ 20 USD yard = $160 material + labor/ per additional kilt.

So one could design one's own pattern for a rugby team or a celtic association for example. Or perhaps a limited edition tartan.

Would any kilt makers care to comment how this compares to the market price of the material they use?

Where did you get that quote? I'm curious about the price break points / production time.

Thanks!

[Dakotan]

Well call me crazy (many already do), but by Erudite's figures that doesn't seem too awfully bad. If one had a real interest in doing this and was in the financial position, that actually sounds quite reasonable for having one's own tartan kilt, and enough material to make a ton of others.
Interesting....

- Dakotan