There is one other issue, really two issues.

One is time, the other is money.

If we can find a place that will 1. supply the cloth ans 2. supply the kilts, then the burden of...

A. time, B. organization and C. collecting and distributing money is shifted AWAY from whoever at X Marks is involved with this. I've been involved in two projects like this. One was for a small run of poetry books and the other was for a set of baseball caps for a sailing association online. Believe me, if you serve as the "order center" and the "shipping center" and so on, the amount of work is absolutely monstrous, even for just 60 items. Everything we can do to have SOMEONE ELSE do the work will make the project that much more likely of success.

I find it telling that I put up two telephone numbers to call about mills in Canada that might be able to supply us with cloth and nobody has called them. To be honest, I fully expected that and I put it up as an illustration. It's one thing to commit to buying a kilt, and that's great....Thanks, those who've chimed in on that, already! But before that happens, SOMEONE, and hopefully more than one person needs to do a STINKING lot of work. A tiny, tiny part of that is making a dozen or two dozen phone calls about sources of cloth. Why is it that nobody has called those two mills that I put the contact information up about two days ago? IOt's not very much work is it, to make two phone calls? But nobody has done it. The reason is that many people will be willing to BUY one of these kilts, but almost nobody is willing to spend REAL TIME (not "post-on-the-internet-time") to make it happen.

Get real, people and understand that....or step up to the plate and make some phone calls and report back here about what you learn.

OK, enough ranting and expectation-training.

Now, imagine that in fact, sixty people sign up for kilts. I'd fall over in a dead faint if that happened, but let's pretend it DID happen. After all, it's not an impossibiloity.

Go check the Matron Mills price for 11 ounce Poly-Viscose.

http://www.scotlandforever.net/tartanyardage.html

It retails in the USA for about $30 a yard. That means it wholesales for roughly $15 a yard. SOMEONE has to up-front the money to buy 120 yards of this fabric if it's going to get made. That's $1800. How about the 5-metre preliminary run to check that the tartan is in fact what the designer intended it to be? Who's going to pay for that? I bet it's along the lines of $300 to do that. Some inquiries with Marton Mils will reveal that.

OK, X Mark citizens, who's going to step up to the plate and up-front $1800 of your personal money to guarantee Marton Mills that they'll get paid for their order? Don't expect Bear and Rocky and Matt and Steve and Jeff to cover this for you. You'll get your money back after you sell it, at no markup unless you have a retail license in your state of course, to Bear Kilts and USA Kilts and so on. Because you're doing this out of the goodness of your heart and want to make a great kilt available to X markers for the lowest price, you'll sell it to Rocky and Bear and Jeff and Steve and whoever else wants it, assuming they'll order 200 yards of the stuff at a pop, for $16 a yard. That'll cover your shipping costs. Who here is willing to cover the costs of 120 yards of poly-viscose fabric, order it, receive it, store it, re-sell it to kiltmakers in the USA and Canada on the hope that 60-plus guys from some site on the internet called X marks will in fact come though on their internet chit-chat and order the kilts you've just stuck your neck out to finance?

OK, now THERE is a dose of reality that everybody needs to understand.

If someone on this board is willing to up-front $1800 or more for that fabric, and that's just my totally uneducated guesstimate of what it will cost, then step up now, because believe me, you are our hero!!! Not only that, but all the searching for an affordable source for material is over, if someone will do that.