Question about flashes...

[M. A. C. Newsome]

Do it Matt! I would love to see the Ogilvie tartan being worn, as I have never actually seen it worn in person, but I have always had this odd fantasy of wanting to, hahaha!

If I wasn't such a staunch wearer of Macpherson (Chattan) tartans only, I would most definitely have a kilt made of the Ogilvie tartan - could one even have this complex sett pleated to the stripe if they so preferred?!

Cheers,

Generally when this tartan is pleated the kiltmaker has to create a pattern for it, as it would be impossible to pleat to either sett or stripe given the huge repeat size.

[creagdhubh]

Generally when this tartan is pleated the kiltmaker has to create a pattern for it, as it would be impossible to pleat to either sett or stripe given the huge repeat size.

Intriguing indeed. I've always been quite fascinated by the Ogilvie tartan - i.e., it's colour scheme, complex sett, historical apsect, etc. If someone ever commissioned an Ogilvie kilt to be made by you Matt, or if you ever decide to make one for yourself, it would be very interesting to see this process being done, step by step. Either way, photos of each particular step would be awesome - perhaps a nice topic for your blog - this is all hypothetically speaking, naturally.

Cheers,

[Woodsheal]

A 1618 description of Highland dress, by one John Taylor - a Londoner who travelled through Scotland in 1618:

"Their habite is shooes with but one sole apiece; stockings (which they call short hose) made of a warm stuffe of diverse colours, which they call Tartane: as for breeches, many of them, nor their forefathers, never wore any, but a jerkin of the same stuffe that their hose is of, their garters being bands or wreathes of hay or straw, with a plead about their shoulders, which is a mantle of divers colours, much finer and lighter stuffe then their hose, with blue flat caps on their heads, a handkerchiefe knit with two knots about their necke; and thus are they attyred."

[figheadair]

Intriguing indeed. I've always been quite fascinated by the Ogilvie tartan - i.e., it's colour scheme, complex sett, historical apsect, etc. If someone ever commissioned an Ogilvie kilt to be made by you Matt, or if you ever decide to make one for yourself, it would be very interesting to see this process being done, step by step. Either way, photos of each particular step would be awesome - perhaps a nice topic for your blog - this is all hypothetically speaking, naturally.

Cheers,

We're going a bit off topic but if one was going to get the Ogilvie woven it would have to be the HSL version which is probably the oldest and certainly the most beautiful.

I'm in the early stages of a paper about the Ogilvie/Drummond of Strathallan and their connection with the original tartan used by the Royal Company of Archers.

[creagdhubh]

We're going a bit off topic but if one was going to get the Ogilvie woven it would have to be the HSL version which is probably the oldest and certainly the most beautiful.

I'm in the early stages of a paper about the Ogilvie/Drummond of Strathallan and their connection with the original tartan used by the Royal Company of Archers.

Wonderful, Peter! I would love to read your paper (when it is finished, naturally) on the issue.

Cheers,

[Steve of Lansing]

"We're going a bit off topic but if one was going to...."

I read in another thread recently, the term "floating relevance".

I'm satisfied with the answers to the questions in my original post, so feel free to take this one wherever it wants to go now, fellas!