Most Peculiar Fabric Successfully Made into a Kilt?

**Bugbear** · 9th March 12, 09:53 PM

The title basically asks it all, but you have had to actually have witnessed or built the kilt.

I don't mean this as a joke; I am wondering if there some overlooked or not often discussed fabrics from which kilts have been constructed. Don't forget weaves and such.

**Nick the DSM** · 9th March 12, 09:56 PM

I've heard of a ducttape kilt...

**brewerpaul** · 9th March 12, 10:35 PM

Im making one out of hemp and cotton heavy weight corduroy fabric. Should hang nice and will be box pleated.

**serenitylala** · 9th March 12, 11:17 PM

Okay those both trump my flannel kilt.

**Ian_G** · 10th March 12, 03:21 AM

Originally Posted by Nick the DSM

I've heard of a ducttape kilt...

Did the owner come to a sticky end?

Ian

**McClef** · 10th March 12, 04:15 AM

Originally Posted by Ian_G

Did the owner come to a sticky end?

Ian

**Father Bill** · 10th March 12, 04:26 AM

Originally Posted by Nick the DSM

I've heard of a ducttape kilt...

Ah yes! The Red & Green tartan! (Canadian joke - sorry everybody else; I just had to do it.)

**Geoff Withnell** · 10th March 12, 05:45 AM

I don't have pics, but at last year's Celtic Fling (on the PA Ren Faire site) there was a couple in Hawaiian shirt fabric kilts. They claimed it was the McGarrett Five-O tartan.

**LitTrog** · 10th March 12, 08:10 AM

Originally Posted by Father Bill

Ah yes! The Red & Green tartan! (Canadian joke - sorry everybody else; I just had to do it.)

I'm not Canadian, but I watch PBS!

**CDNSushi** · 9th March 12, 11:55 PM

If money were no object, I would construct one out of pure silk. And when I say "silk" I'm not talking about the silky-satiny, slippery stuff many may be thinking of. I'm thinking of the heavy, crepe (crape), a bit rough-to-the-touch silk that you would find in high-end kimonos.

The outside would be a black, shadow-tartan, and I would have the pleats inlaid with very colorful, Japanese floral designs and traditional motifs with fans, cherry blossoms, cranes, etc. from an actual, old kimono.

Then, for the straps, I would use traditional, Yamanashi　crafted deerskin (called inden)

Unfortunately, this is merely a pipe dream because the custom weave shadow tartan in black silk would break the bank! And the "inden" straps would NOT be cheap! But imagine the final result!!!