Differences Between Poly/Viscose Weights

[Tartan Hiker]

Accept light weight Acrylic fabrics or raise such a stink that the mills start to produce what we are asking for.

If anyone knows HOW to raise a stink, please let me in on it. I've emailed MM on several occasions with questions, and have never gotten a reply. I suppose someone read the notes, but apparently didn't think them worthy of a response.

Perhaps a "snail-mail" barrage from the rabble might get their attention?

[The Wizard of BC]

Actually the problem is not with the weaving mills but with the yarn spinning mills. The vast majority of them which are in China and India.

When manufacturing Made-Made fibers such as Polyester, Rayon, and Acrylic, each fiber thickness is determined by the spinnerets that the liquid is extruded from. To make yarn you then must twist multiple individual strands together. The more strands in each yarn, the thicker the yarn and the heavier the resulting fabric will be.

If for example there are 20 yarns to the inch in your fabric. Now take a piece of fabric 60 inches wide and 1 yard long. This piece of fabric will have 2400 yards of yarn in it. That's 1.36 miles of yarn per yard of fabric!!!! Or 5.45 miles of yarn to make one kilt.

And how many colors of yarn do I need on hand to weave each of the 4000 registered Tartans??? No one can stock 400 miles of yarn just waiting for one of the X Marks rabble to order his kilt.

We are a very small insignificant part of the overall weaving business. And I'm sorry to say that very few weaving mills are going to try and support themselves weaving just for us.

So, Buy kilts, buy lot's of Kilts, If you want heavy weight P/V Kilts then start ordering them. order truck loads of them. Then perhaps the weavers will find it profitable to make the fabric we want available.