Turpin was back in Memphis

[Warlock]

Alas! My parental duties made me leave far too early. 2100 hours. But I had to feed the boy and make sure he went to bed. However, I will soon be the VERY proud owner of a Thorfinn original! He will start getting some of his buttons from me. Unfortunately my sample stock is almost non existant, he never the less, got some for his sporrans. I had to show off my new DREADBELLY TAM! Man it's nice!!Hmmm... should I mention the young lass at the FS that fell in love with my fangs? Nah. Better not mention it! Maybe next time I won't have to cut out so early. Turpin, It's always a pleasure! Now we just need to get everyone down to Memphis for a Taking names and kicking @$$ kilt night.

[Dirk Skene]

LAURITE - noun. A mineral recently discovered by a person named Laura. .............

It's really bad when the spellcheck doesn't even catch you & the whole planet knows you can't spell.

[Warlock]

just slow down and re-read your post.

[cessna152towser]

Looks like a good night out. Super pics, thanks for posting.

[Rampant Lion]

Looking at the pics, I noticed something:
BOTH are wearing buchanan tartans, BUT notice how the sett lays in the kilt.
They are not quite the same.
WHY??
Buchanan is not a repeated in a way that has the pattern pivoted on a stripe. Rather, it is repeated, in full, the same order. It is one of the odd tartans that do this.
Significance: It is NOT one of the tartans that can be bought in double width and cut/splice to make a kilt. You have to get the full length, and then have the material for 2 kilts. One would be like Dirk's and one Turpin's (only with exact matching colors and size).
Just my observation.

Looks like you 2 are having a BLAST!!!

Good eye! My brain knew that there was a diffrence between the kilts when I first looked at the pictures, but couldn't wrap my mind around it until I read your post.

If you took a length of doublewidth tartan and folded it in half so that the selvedge edges lined up and cut the tartan at the fold, that's how you get the two different lays of the sett shown in the pictures.

Very interesting. Makes me wonder if assymetrical tartans have a "top" and "bottom."

[turpin]

That's what I understand the issue to be with making kilts out asymmetric tartans. You can't just take 4 yards and rip/flip/join it like you can a symmetric or the sett goes all wiliwaud. Like with the Maple Leaf tartan. I think MacHummel plans to make a lot of those kilts by ripping a full single length and making two kilts, one from each side of the length.

[turpin]

OK, I finally figured out what the issue is with the tartans. Dirk just put his kilt on upside down. That explains the red stripe being on top of the yellow, whereas mine is worn correctly.

[Dirk Skene]

[QUOTE=turpin;374386]....... Dirk just put his kilt on upside down. ..../QUOTE]