Quote Originally Posted by Thistle Stop
This is a kilt-wearer's group. Don't you want to display your 'group tartan' in a KILT, rather than a hat or a tie???
Absolutely, Cyndi. Now, I'd think it was cool to have an X Marks tartan tie, but sure a kilt would be better. It's just that I have no idea how to go about getting the material made, without ordering 100 yards of it, for kilts. That's where the killer expense is. The expense was what stopped this project in its tracks last time. A commercial run of tartan from a Scottish mill is prohibitively expensive. Two yards from a handweaver is not.

If we could get a yard or two of the material woven, and some products made for very little money then there'd be something for people to actually LOOK at and see. I think it's easier to interest half a dozen people in a kilt in a given tartan if they can actually SEE the tartan as a piece of cloth and not just a computer graphic.

But hey, that's just me. Maybe I'm wrong, eh? If four or five people step up and say "I will order a kilt in this tartan, here's my money" and hand it to Matt or another kiltmaker, well heckarama! I'm all for it!

Those kilts will be $300-plus from Matt, though. I'm concerned that not enough people would/could/can commit to getting one made. However, I'm less concerned that we can get six-eight people to buy a tie for $25 - $30.

Let's hear it from the Board. Maybe we don't need to do the handwoven small-quantity and the ties, etc. 'cause there's no demand.