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    It was great talking to you today, Dirk. I have ordered the material and await your measurements for the order.

    BTW... as a point of clarification, the material is already woven (I believe... unless I hear otherwise from the mill). It was a bit pricey b/c it's in the "old and rare" range, so they charge more for it (still can't figure that out for the life of me... if it takes the same ammt of time to weave, why is it 50% more than other tartans that take the same time?)

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    Quote Originally Posted by RockyR View Post
    <snip> It was a bit pricey b/c it's in the "old and rare" range, so they charge more for it (still can't figure that out for the life of me... if it takes the same ammt of time to weave, why is it 50% more than other tartans that take the same time?)
    Someone posted awhile back a figuring of how much it costs to weave the average tartan, figuring in time of mill operators, equipment and material costs, etc. and came up with a figure that the mill operators actually only take a very small profit on each yard. That has to be made up somewhere, and that somewhere is going to be in the charge for weaving something that they don't weave that often. As Robert Heinlein would have put it, "All the traffic will bear."

    At least that is as near as I can figure it...

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