Jacket 3.0 Open Source Design

[Jock Scot]

Hello Kevin,

I am not a tailor or a weaver,but as you know I am a user of tweed out in the shooting world and some of that world is pretty rough and rugged.I love tweed,but it does have its limitations,not many I grant you.

The one thing you ought(must really)to think about is the weight and weave of the cloth, if you dont, trouble lies ahead.If you want to have your cloth to "wear" well you should consider nothing less than a 23/24oz close woven hard tweed.Anything less and I am talking about that soft fasion type stuff here,will be in tatters if "used" in a very short while.Even the sort of tweed that we use will only last our stalkers two years at best.

Of course I doubt that you envisage your jackets taking the daily hammering that some of us give our tweed,but in my humble opinion it would be a false economy to skimp on the quality and weight of the cloth that you are intending to use.I like the colours of the tweeds that you are showing,by the way.

I hope you don't mind me chipping in and the best of luck with your enterprise.

Jock.

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