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    Whoops! Typos are noticed just after the message has been put "out there!"

    Where it says "spinning them into a very tight "hard" worsted cloth" I meant to say "spinning them into a very tight "hard" worsted yarns"

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    Thanks for the interesting presentation. I learned a lot. Is hard tartan what older regimental kilts are made from? I know that they're made from very heavy cloth, but I also noticed that the texture is different. I wasn't sure what accounted for that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheBrus View Post
    Thanks for the interesting presentation. I learned a lot. Is hard tartan what older regimental kilts are made from? I know that they're made from very heavy cloth, but I also noticed that the texture is different. I wasn't sure what accounted for that.
    Good question.

    Also, The House of Edgar offers a half dozen "Regimental Tartans" that have more "texture" than other tartans. Are those "less finished" in the same sense, but perhaps to a lesser extent, than the "hard tartan" cloth?
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    Quote Originally Posted by mookien View Post
    Good question.

    Also, The House of Edgar offers a half dozen "Regimental Tartans" that have more "texture" than other tartans. Are those "less finished" in the same sense, but perhaps to a lesser extent, than the "hard tartan" cloth?
    No, those tartans are all finished, as usual. They are woven from different types of yarns - I believe some saxony yarns - to give a softer and more full texture. See my previous post.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheBrus View Post
    Thanks for the interesting presentation. I learned a lot. Is hard tartan what older regimental kilts are made from? I know that they're made from very heavy cloth, but I also noticed that the texture is different. I wasn't sure what accounted for that.
    Well, that all depends on what you mean by "older." :-) If you look at regimental kilts from the 1790s, for example, then yes they would have been made from hard tartan.

    However, I suspect you mean early 20th century, perhaps, and this would not be the case. The heavy cloth used for regimental kilts has been referred to as "horse blanket weight," and I believe was made using a mixture of worsted and saxony yarns. (The worsted in the warp, and saxony in the weft, if I recall). Peter MacDonald would have more information on this than would I.

    But the regimental cloth actually has a softer hand to it than this unfinished hard tartan would.

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