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For the customer, double width just means there will be a join hidden in a middle pleat. Not a big deal at all. For the kilt maker, there's no ideal way to join two halves of a double width asymmetrical tartan. For this reason, it's typical for asymmetrical tartans to be woven in single width.
Exposes how little I know (and how little I STILL understand): doesn't double width just mean a "canvas" of the same pattern, twice as wide? In other words, why would a piece of fabric twice as wide have to be sewn together, whereas one half that width would not?

Another question: why is single width fabric MORE expensive? My previous guess (based on no INFORMATION whatsoever) was that single width looms were more "historical antiques" and required much more maintenance, but I do think I remember reading somewhere that they were more easily coaxed into creating fabric with herringbone selvedge at one extreme or the other.

(When USA Kilt's Rocky Roeger asked the managers of Lochcarron and House of Edgar one thing they each thought their house did "better" than the other, the HoE guy answered immediately "we do a whole LOT of single width cloth)."