Very nice budget tartan on ebay..$6.99 a yard!

[MacLowlife]

A the P, I believe we reached a consensus that the erstwhile Black Watch may be Farquharson.

Snowbear, the out-of country shipping from Fab Crafts is a little steep, but I like the fabric, all things considered. It has a decent heft to it. I don't know that I'd call it flannel- more of a coarse coat-weight, which would make a good heavy kilt, I think. Be prepared for your mother to complain about the weight. Their delivery to the US was blazingly fast.

[Pleater]

My purchase of two lots of fabric came today - the pinstripe is about equal to a 10 oz fabric and the tartan a little heavier, so not bad for the price. Both are 60 inches wide, neither is pure wool - but at the price, just a little over 2 UK pounds per running yard, averaging out the two rolls of fabric, how could I not buy them?

No sense in skimping at that price - far better to have some left over than running out.

Now I have to decide what to make from them - I think that the pinstripe would make a kilt and a cape - with the cape lined it should be warm enough for an English winter.

But the tartan - how to cut it - how to pleat it - oooo - decisions decisons.

I will have to look at it in daylight, but I am fairly sure that the base tartan is only an approximation of Black Watch, however the red and yellow stripes will take the attention.

Anne the Pleater

[Pleater]

Drat - checking with 'Tartan Ferret' shows that the tartan is registered, as Semple, fairly recently too - the light stripe is really cream or white, rather than yellow.

It is rectangular rather than square, but recognisable. The ferret shows the same stripes and bands - not being a member I can't get the actual thread count, but it is

red (blue black)3 green white green (black blue)3

Perhaps I can dye it so the light stripe becomes another colour - something off beat like turquoise - it will affect the red stripe but not the dark colours.

This is very annoying.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[Alan H]

Drat - checking with 'Tartan Ferret' shows that the tartan is registered, as Semple, fairly recently too - the light stripe is really cream or white, rather than yellow.

It is rectangular rather than square, but recognisable. The ferret shows the same stripes and bands - not being a member I can't get the actual thread count, but it is

red (blue black)3 green white green (black blue)3

Perhaps I can dye it so the light stripe becomes another colour - something off beat like turquoise - it will affect the red stripe but not the dark colours.

This is very annoying.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

This is your "Black Watch plus stripes" right, not the stuff I pointed out on the ebay listing?

[Pleater]

Yes, I started to look around on eBay - whilst I was there, I thought, I'd just see what else was on offer and it was described as Black watch plus the stripes, but the sett is rather smaller than the BW and having got a good look at it in daylight this morning, whilst the background is the blackwatch colours the pattern repeat is that of the Semple tartan.

Ah well - if I cut it into pieces I can make subtly different tartans from it with judicious overdyeing, turquiose, true blue - maybe even pink.

Not a disaster really - just an opportunity to be creative.

I could even double the size of the sett by using fabric paints and colouring the stripes differently.

It wasn't all that expensive, which really makes it all the more surprising that it is a recognisable tartan.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

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A the P, I believe we reached a consensus that the erstwhile Black Watch may be Farquharson.

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Interesting, my dad told me thats where we come from