Is Isle of Skye considered universal?

[Todd Bradshaw]

We're pretty much wool people around here and the Marton Mills IOS tartan we ordered for my wife to make a dress from was our first experience with Polyviscose fabric. We were very pleasantly surprised at how nice and rich the PV fabric is. After years of seeing racks of rather nasty looking, $99 acrylic kilts being sold at highland games it was nice to see a different non-wool tartan that had plenty of class.

PV IOS dress:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gendogw5824gjps/ios5.jpg?dl=0

[Steve Ashton]

Just one of the many IOS Tartan kilts made by Barb Tewksbury. This one pleated to Sett in 16oz wool woven by Lochcarron.




And a Marton Mills 13oz wool kilt I made for Panache. This one pleated to "No Stripe".



And the pleat shot.



And another I made. This time in P/V by Marton Mills.

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My own personal IOS Tartan kilt made from 16oz wool woven by Marton Mills.



This Tartan is one of those that looks great no matter which way you have the pattern display in the pleats.



The Isle Of Skye Tartan was so popular on X Marks for a while it was almost the unofficial X Marks Hunting Tartan.

Then the Pakistani weavers began to copy the design. One of them, when take to court, chose to simply change the name and call their fabric "Bright Skye".