show us your Cornish kilts & accessories

[McClef]

Photo of me taken by Acaigh



Taken by somebody using my camera



(sorry about the uneven hose!)



The Cornish contingent in Cardiff:

[sailortats]

McClef, thanks for the pics. I am very pleased to see you and the other gentleman wearing a rouche tie with your PC. I prefer this type of tie to a bow tie for most occasions. But I realize that some here do not go along with that.

[McClef]

Yes the ruche does have its fair share of detractors! I think it can look elegant when worn with the complimentary gear.

I do also like a bow tie as you can see from my avatar.

[Cygnus]

That is a lovely tartan! I am curious to know why you chose four yellow lines for the bezants, though, when they're arranged in a triangle with five bezants per side.

[Spartan Tartan]

my kilt is from the Cornish Hunting tartan. I will have to get a picture to post up here. I sadly dnt have many pictures to post. It seems that I tend not to remember to take pictures when I am out and about. I also have a nice set of cornish inspired cufflinks.

My family were miners too. They moved to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and even had a town named after my great grandfather.

[Spartan Tartan]

Here is a fairly old picture...within the past couple years. Yes, it may be a bit matchy-matchy, but I happen to like the outfit and more importantly, my wife likes it as well. It is, however, the only picture I have of me wearing my kilt. (I usually take the pictures, not pose for them).

[OC Richard]

Thanks guys! Just what I was hoping for!

McClef, awsome pics there of "the Cornish Contingent". I note that at least two of the gents are wearing the wonderful Cornish sporrans that that site sells.

The KERNOW sticker on the back of my car gets some strange looks here in SoCal, by the way.

Here I am playing the traditional Cornish Doublepipes for a gathering of Cornish Bards at the international gathering of the Cornish-American Heritage Society, this gathering held at Mars Hill, North Carolina. I'm wearing Renaissance style clothing in keeping with the surving image of a Cornish piper at Altanun Church, Bodmin Moor. The Bard immediately behind me is an American guy, a professor in the Celtic Languages Dept at a major university (I don't remember which) who speaks Cornish and has done much to revive the language. All the of the Bards are people who have done outstanding services for Cornwall, in language, tourism, etc.

[Robert Soderman]

my kilt is from the Cornish Hunting tartan. I will have to get a picture to post up here. I sadly dnt have many pictures to post. It seems that I tend not to remember to take pictures when I am out and about. I also have a nice set of cornish inspired cufflinks.

My family were miners too. They moved to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and even had a town named after my great grandfather.

Hi Spartan-new here and I was very courious about your post because I live in Upper Michigan. My great grandmother (Harriette Kelly) and great-great grandmother (Emma Solomon)were both from Cornwall. My great grandmother Harriette parent's were married in Menheniot, Cornwall. Both married Broemer men and they settled here in the U. P. First in the Houghton/Hancock area and then Ontonagon, and finally here in the Ironwood/Bessemer area. We don't have a town named after us but we do have a road outside of Houghton and my great grandfather started the fire department in that area. I was wondering if there was connection somewhere.
The Cornish hunting kilt is on my list to own but I think I'm going to have to get use to the Cornish National. Bit too much yellow for me.

[OC Richard]

Hello fellow Cornish-Americans!

I've been working on creating Cornish tartan which is softer, nicer in my opinion than what's currently available.

This is one I just came up with. I like the "windowpane tweed" aspect of it. My entire goal is to make something more clothlike, more tartanlike, and looking less diagrammatic, which is difficult to do given the (to me) sine qua non of Cornish tartan design, the St Piran flag and the gold & black bezant shield.

[OC Richard]

That is a lovely tartan! I am curious to know why you chose four yellow lines for the bezants, though, when they're arranged in a triangle with five bezants per side.

A good observation. I've tried it different ways. There are 15 Bezants, and due to the nature of tartan design you can't do 15, it's either 9 (3x3) or 16 (4x4). From what I've read it's the number of Bezants which is important for the Cornish crest, not the way they're arranged (one site said that the 15 Bezants are "usually but not always arranged in a triangle").

Five a side would make 25 Bezants, too many I think. I myself think that the Bezant section of the tartan looks better with only 9.

Were I to get my Cornish tartan woven, it would probably be this version, where I use only 9 Bezants and put in some seafoam green to break up the field of blue. I think this looks more "tartanlike", more clothlike, and less diagrammatic than my first design