That green binding was pretty much universal on Scottish military kilts from Victorian times up until the Royal Regiment of Scotland was created in 2006.
The binding is grass-green herringbone wool tape. (Wider herringbone wool tape, in scarlet, was traditionally used for military flashes.)
Elsie Stuehmeyer, who made a large number of army kilts while at Thomas Gordon, said that that green tape was a real pain to attach due to it being narrow.
When I ordered a military-spec kilt from House of Edgar (who still weaves the super-heavyweight fuzzy huge-sett old-school military tartan) they used grass-green wool cloth for the binding. They said they couldn't get the green narrow herringbone tape any more.
The 2006 Royal Regiment of Scotland kilts departed from the way military kilts had long been made not only in dropping the green herringbone binding (changing it to black) but also switching from the traditional military two-prong stamped sheet-metal black buckles to the ordinary cast-metal civilian-style buckles (though done up in black).
Last edited by OC Richard; 30th September 24 at 08:30 AM.
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