Quote Originally Posted by RockyR View Post
T Bone

You are correct, there should be no join in a kilt made form single width cloth. A Kilt in single width cloth should not cost anymore than a standard kilt (unless it's an "old and rare" tartan or a special weave or something). It's actually LESS WORK as the kiltmaker doesn't have to join the 2 pieces.
Not meaning to argue or anything Rocky, as you know orders of magnitude more about kilts and tartan tha I ever will (insert bow of respect here), but isn't it generally true that tartan material woven in single width is generally greater cost to procure per yard than double width cloth per yard which is then divided by 2 to yield the true single width per yard cost? It certainly seems so when I have been tartan shopping, but then again it may be that those tartans I have been shopping for which only are available in single width are "old & rare" or special weaves, thereby explaining the higher "per SW yard" cost. It only makes sense that labor costs to join two split pieces of DW would be higher than working with a single long piece of SW tartan, I agree.

jeff