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    Question Which mills can produce a true kilt selvedge?

    Which mills have the traditional shuttle looms required to produce a true kilt selvedge (i.e., not a tuck-in selvedge)?

    The ones I've read about elsewhere are:
    House of Edgar
    Andrew Elliot
    DC Dalgliesh

    Any others?
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    DC Dalgliesh can. Don’t know about the others.

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    I'm only aware of DC Dalgleish doing a traditional kilting selvedge. I'm certain that someone imminently more knowledgeable will chime in.
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    Andrew Elliot Ltd. First and foremost. They only use traditonal Dobcross looms.

    Knockando Mill - I'm not sure how much tartan they produce.

    D. C. Dalgliesh - only their single-width nowadays I believe. Some of their cloth is also outsourced.

    House of Edgar - one selvedge only.

    Lochcarron - on some of their cloth and only on one selvedge I believe.

    Prickly Thistle - bespoke commissions only.

    Any hand-weaver.

    Anyone with a Hattersley Loom.

    Strathmore do not weave their own cloth and all the cloth they sell has a tuck edge so far as I know.
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    Quote Originally Posted by figheadair View Post
    Andrew Elliot Ltd. First and foremost...
    Thank you so much for sharing your wealth of knowledge!

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    Quote Originally Posted by figheadair View Post
    Andrew Elliot Ltd. First and foremost. They only use traditonal Dobcross looms.
    And it should be mentioned that Andrew Elliot Ltd. will also do custom herringbone selvedges, if you wish. Here are some photos of tartan I had made by them, and you can see the loom as well as the selvedge details (a double herringbone, in this case).


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    Quote Originally Posted by Tobus View Post
    And it should be mentioned that Andrew Elliot Ltd. will also do custom herringbone selvedges, if you wish.
    They will indeed but, and it's a big but, if you want it historically accurate i.e. the selvedge mark in the right place for a given sett, then you will need to specify that and possibly, layout the warp setting or get someone who knows how to.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tobus View Post
    And it should be mentioned that Andrew Elliot Ltd. will also do custom herringbone selvedges, if you wish...
    Absolutely beautiful! Impressive attention to detail!

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