Diced Hose

[macwilkin]

Kenneth Short Hosiery, Hawick, Scotland. http://www.kshosiery.co.uk/

I THANK YOU, SIR! (but my chequebook doesn't!) :mrgreen:

Cheers,

Todd

[davedove]

Thanks guys! It looks like I will wait a while to get any of these. My credit card was begging for mercy just looking at those prices.

I'll get some one day just to have them, but not yet.

[Colin]

I THANK YOU, SIR! (but my chequebook doesn't!) :mrgreen:

Cheers,

Todd

Ouch, you weren't kidding Todd. 95 quid for a pair of hose!! That's in the $200 cdn range.

[GlassMan]

Yikes! I get all sorts of grief about the amount I spend on my kilts. If I start buying $200 hose I'll be deadmeat.

[Pleater]

Woow.

All these years I have been slogging away making jerseys, cardigans and jackets - I should have been turning out Argyll socks.

The 'only' really comfortable yarn for socks worn with shoes are quite fine - two or maybe three ply at the most in UK terms. The best yarn is a mixture of 80 to 90 percent wooll and 20 to 10 percent Nylon - and it is probably quite expensive to find nice ones in the right colours - even so, those prices are rather astonishing.

Synthetic yarn socks which unravel are really not the thing - good socks last decades, at least they do for me, when I make them.

I used to make my hiking socks - and that was - 40 years ago - I would estimate their normal lifespan at about 20 years.

It surely can't be impossible to find someone to knit Argyll socks - it isn't exactly rocket science.