Carolina kilt pics

[piperdbh]

Here's a thread just for Carolina kilts. Please post your best shots, including the pleats, tell who made it, and when you got it, along with anything special you'd like to tell. I'll go first.





I got this Newsome masterpiece on Sunday, 12/20/09 at 1 pm. The FedEx man delivered it on Sunday because of the snowstorm the previous Friday. I asked Matt to pleat it to the Carolina blue stripes, because I like Carolina blue. These pictures were taken after my family Christmas party.

[McMurdo]

10-01-2008 I came home to find a postal notice that there was a package for me it was my Carolina tartan kilt by Matt Newsome. Here I am wearing it with Matt at the Scottish Tartan Museum in Franklin North Carolina

[M. A. C. Newsome]

Ooo, fun!

First of all, if anyone is interested in more info about the Carolina tartan, here it is:
http://www.carolinatartan.com/

Second of all, we still have a good part of a bolt of cloth left in heavy weight wool, traditional Wilson of Bannockburn colors, for $75/yd at the museum. You can buy here:
http://giftshop.scottishtartans.org/carolina_items.html

Third of all, my pics!

This was actually the first Carolina kilt I owned. Four yard box pleat, which I made myself Christmas of 2006. It is in the modern colors, 16 oz Lochcarron strome. We had a bunch of this cloth woven for a pipe band (Cross Creek Pipes & Drums) who were getting new kilts in this tartan. I made sure to order a couple of extra yards for myself.


Here I am wearing the same kilt in a more formal setting at a Burns Supper in Murphy, NC, in 2007.

I have subsequently sold that kilt to a gentleman in the UK and made myself another box pleated kilt in the Carolina tartan, in the traditional colors of Wilsons of Bannockburn (the first large scale producer of tartan cloth, who standardized their dye colors sometime prior to the 1780s). Most of the Carolina kilts I've made for other people have been in this color scheme, which I really like. Here is one of my favorite pics of this kilt, where I am wearing it with a matching plaid.


This photo shows the plaid from the back.


I wore this kilt while modelling our Wallace (aka "Ghillie") jacket and waistcoat.


I wear this kilt a lot at Highland Games, especially ones in the Carolinas. Here I am at Grandfather Mountain last year, with my wife.

[piperdbh]

Alright, that's three of us. (Thanks, McMurdo and Matt.)
Who'll make it four?

[piperdbh]

I thought there were more than three of us here. (hint, hint)

[Tartan Hiker]

I just realized i don't have a decent photo of mine. Will correct that soon.

[fudgeman]

From a recent thread: my new Newsome box pleat----->>>>

[Paul]

Wow, I love the tartan guys!
To me, it looks like a more organised version of the Caledonia tartan. Does it represent both N & S states?

[M. A. C. Newsome]

Wow, I love the tartan guys!
To me, it looks like a more organised version of the Caledonia tartan. Does it represent both N & S states?

Yes, the Carolina tartan is the official state tartan of both North and South Carolina. You can read more about it here:
http://www.carolinatartan.com/

It is actually based on the Prince Charles Edward Stuart tartan.

[OC Richard]

It's a lovely tartan for sure.

At first glance it looks a bit like the Caledonia tartan, but nicer.