show us your Cornish kilts & accessories

**OC Richard** · 3rd January 13, 03:49 AM

Originally Posted by yodofizzy

What type of pipes are those in that picture? I notice that it seems to have no drones and two chanters? Is this a different type of pipes than I am accustomed to?

Yes most of us are accustomed to the Great Highland Bagpipe of Scotland, but there are dozens and dozens of different bagpipe species in various countries, most of them completely unlike the GHB.

Those pipes I'm playing are Cornish Doublepipes made by Julian Goodacre of Peebles Scotland. Here's a link to his Cornish Doublepipes page

http://www.goodbagpipes.com/goodbagp...oublepipe.html

Here's a link to my site where you can hear me play them

http://www.celticpiper.net/instrumnt.htm

Thanks guys for the kudos for that latest Cornish tartan concept. I think I'm on to something, because that one just "jumps off the page" to me, which none of my previous designs had done. Those three lines in the blue field, I've moved those puppies all over the place and changed their colour and width and nothing clicked with me until I made them very narrow and spread them out. (That was the only variable because the St Piran Flag and Bezants are a given.)

**Barb T** · 9th January 13, 12:40 PM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

Love the colors. But! From a kiltmakers perspective, this tartan (and actually the other versions as well) would be a nightmare to pleat, and I'm not sure it could be pleated so that outcome would be satisfactory unless you chose to pleat it to the stripe (the white stripe in black or one of the dark blue stripes in the lighter blue).

If a kiltmaker tried to pleat it to the sett, the big cluster of very narrow stripes is too wide to include all in one pleat, and the pivot (center) yellow stripe is too narrow to split between two pleats. And there are so many narrow stripes (in this version, I count 11 narrow stripes in a row) it will be almost impossible not to lose one or more of those stripes if the pleats taper at all between the hips and the waist.

Of course the other option is to make a box pleated kilt where the pleats are really big compared to the pleats of a typical knife-pleated kilt.

**TheOfficialBren** · 10th January 13, 05:25 AM

Richard, I just checked out your site. From one musician to another, well done, sir. I love the samples.

Originally Posted by OC Richard

Yes most of us are accustomed to the Great Highland Bagpipe of Scotland, but there are dozens and dozens of different bagpipe species in various countries, most of them completely unlike the GHB.

Those pipes I'm playing are Cornish Doublepipes made by Julian Goodacre of Peebles Scotland. Here's a link to his Cornish Doublepipes page

http://www.goodbagpipes.com/goodbagp...oublepipe.html

Here's a link to my site where you can hear me play them

http://www.celticpiper.net/instrumnt.htm

Thanks guys for the kudos for that latest Cornish tartan concept. I think I'm on to something, because that one just "jumps off the page" to me, which none of my previous designs had done. Those three lines in the blue field, I've moved those puppies all over the place and changed their colour and width and nothing clicked with me until I made them very narrow and spread them out. (That was the only variable because the St Piran Flag and Bezants are a given.)

**Llama** · 10th January 13, 07:57 AM

I always love to hear the input of the kiltmakers about how easy or difficult tartans are to pleat. I would never have picked up those things from OC Richard's lovely design with my untrained eye.

**Hamish** · 10th January 13, 10:53 AM

Sadly I have only just stumbled upon this thread - and felt obliged to 'have my say'. I added the Cornish National to my Kilt Kollection in 2006 and, although I have no known connections with that part of the United Kingdom, it is a tartan that has given me much pleasure to wear. It is not, however, the easiest of tartans to co-ordinate for other than formal wear! Here I am wearing it formally when I paired the kilt with a GT Doublet from Geoffrey (Tailor) of Edinburgh:

and here in a casual manner:

I am proud to say that Cornovi (the Cornish tartans specialists) have me as part of the 'banner' on the Kilt Sales page of their website (http://www.cornish-tartans.co.uk) - I am second from the left!

Take care,
Ham.