Kiltmaker Suggestion

[Captain Karrot]

Hi all! Need some suggestions. I am looking for a new kilt (spend some of my bonus money ). Anyway, I want a decent, wool, traditional kilt, and I would love to have it made in the Robinson tartan (see below), which is a sept of Clann Gunn. Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!

[ccga3359]

Welcome to XMarks from Ontario Canada. To answer your question, wool & traditional. Scottish Tartans Museum. Run by XMarks own Matt Newsome. Suggest you first look at his 4 yd box pleat.

[Arizona Scot]

Welcome aboard from sunny Arizona, there are several kilt makers here on the forum. Matt Newsome, is one and there are several kilt perveyors such as USA kilts and Stillwater Kilts, check around on the different forums and I am sure you will find what you are looking for.

[Wompet]

4 yard box pleat - Matt Newsome
8 yard handsewn knife pleat - RockyR (USAKilts) or Barb T.
5 or 8 yard machine-sewn knife pleat - Machummel (Canadian Casual Kilts)
8 yard with side slash pockets - the Wizard of B.C. (Freedom Kilts)

[Riverkilt]

No clue what part of the world you're in, but Kathy Lare has sewn eight traditional kilts for me. She was trained at the Keith Kilt School in Scotland. A neat lady to work with. She's out of Albuquerque but has clients world wide.

She's particularly good at researching fabric availability in whatever tartan you hanker for.

Include her in your selection process. www.kathyskilts.com

I know she's hand sewn over 1,000 kilts since the last one I received from her back in March was #1,002 for her.

Pics of her work is in my gallery.

Ron

[Steeplechase]

When ever you get the Robinson kilt please post a photo. As a fellow Robinson I have given some thought to our tartan as well.

All of the suggestions listed so far are on the spot.

[gilmore]

While there are quite a few clans who claim that many unlikely surnames are their septs, the Gunn clan is probably the worst. If your name is Robinson, chances are far, far more likely than not that your ancestors had nothing to do with the Gunn clan. In fact, it's likely they were English rather than Scots. See http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk and do a search for Robinson in 1881. The Gunns were from Caithness in the northeasten corner of Scotland. There were very few Robinsons north of the Border.

The Robinson tartans are indeed attractive. Evidently they were both designed by Pendleton Mills. See http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/n...ote=1&p=439194

and

http://www.tartansauthority.com and search for the Robinson surname.

[Stewart Rendall]

Also make sure to have a look at http://www.rendallsofedinburgh.com

[Bryan]

I suggest you talk to Matt Newsome.

[Czar]

I'll second Riverkilt on Kathy Lare!!!

She set me up with my 8yd Gordon Dress and her work is perfect! The women in my family are very discriminating on how pleats are done and I still hear how the pleats are the most perfect pleats they've seen!