wanted: pics of kilts in some rare tartans

[Riverkilt]

Aye, done.

Cameron Black and Red from House of Edgar's Old and Rare collection. 13 ounce wool, hand sewn.





Since you seem to be open to some new rare tartans...? Here's Macdonald of Kingsburgh - a pre-Culloden tartan. I like it since its from the Trotternish Peninsula of Skye, home of my ancestors. 16 ounce wool from D.C. Dalgliesh, hand sewn.





Hope that helps. What a wonderful quest you're on!

[OC Richard]

Very nice and thanks! I don't think I'd seen either of those tartans done up in a kilt before, and I'd never heard of Cameron Black and Red.

Now I've come across a newer trade tartan called Pride of Scotland and it comes in a bewildering variety of variations.

Here's a model wearing the Pride of Scotland Modern and here's a customer-owned kilt done up in it... it's odd how differently coloured the two are. I'm not sure who actually weaves Pride of Scotland.

[RedLichtie]

Although not a rare tartan - it's freely (although sadly not free) available from the Lochcarron Strome range - I've never seen anyone else wearing this tartan. It gets positive or inquisitive comments whenever I wear it, mostly as the colours are quite unusual I think.

Thomson Ancient Hunting

[OC Richard]

Actually there's a pipe band here in California that wears Hunting Thompson. I've always loved the look of that tartan; it's like nothing else, the interplay between the chocolate brown and mint green. It makes a perfect "band kilt" because it's striking to the eye even at some distance.

Here they are, the Pacific Coast Highlanders:



They sport the Pipe Band look nearly universally popular throughout the 1990's in which everything in the uniform save the kilt is either white or black. This results in a crisp look and allows the tartan's colours to be seen without any interference. I myself would love to see them try mint green shirts.
One thing about their kilts: note that there's a major line which appears just above the selvedge on most of the kilts, something that I think the weaver should have avoided.

Anyhow I did find kilt photos of some other "trade" tartans:

Spirit of Scotland



and Spirit of Bannockburn

[RedLichtie]

Actually there's a pipe band here in California that wears Hunting Thompson. I've always loved the look of that tartan; it's like nothing else, the interplay between the chocolate brown and mint green. It makes a perfect "band kilt" because it's striking to the eye even at some distance.

They sport the Pipe Band look nearly universally popular throughout the 1990's in which everything in the uniform save the kilt is either white or black. This results in a crisp look and allows the tartan's colours to be seen without any interference. I myself would love to see them try mint green shirts.
One thing about their kilts: note that there's a major line which appears just above the selvedge on most of the kilts, something that I think the weaver should have avoided.

Thanks for that - never seen any other kilts in this tartan before. The kilts in the picture you posted must be made from material woven at a different mill from mine (Lochcarron) because the colours are a bit different. The brown in mine is darker and there's certainly no mint green in my kilt - it's more a turquoise blue in mine, there is a thin green stripe between the brown and turquoise though.

Thanks again.

[JamieKerr]

Well according to Mark at the frugal corner...only two kilts in this tartan have been made, and one was destroyed. So here it is, fresh out of a box I received today...

The National Defense Tartan

[Kilted-Marine]

Well according to Mark at the frugal corner...only two kilts in this tartan have been made, and one was destroyed. So here it is, fresh out of a box I received today...

The National Defense Tartan

We only had two of these made - 1 was sold to jamie, the other was destroyed... We do have the correct national Defense now.. Jamie suggested calling the original (bad weave) Muted national Defense...lol

[BradleyTCO]

Although not a rare tartan - it's freely (although sadly not free) available from the Lochcarron Strome range - I've never seen anyone else wearing this tartan. It gets positive or inquisitive comments whenever I wear it, mostly as the colours are quite unusual I think.

Thomson Ancient Hunting

Oh, there's another Thompson Hunting out there! (Excuse the horrible color quality of the photo.)

[figheadair]

Aye, done.

Since you seem to be open to some new rare tartans...? Here's Macdonald of Kingsburgh - a pre-Culloden tartan. I like it since its from the Trotternish Peninsula of Skye, home of my ancestors. 16 ounce wool from D.C. Dalgliesh, hand sewn.

I was fortunate to see the original Kingsburgh piece some years ago. DW Stewart got both the sett and colours wrong in his 1893 book Old & Rare Scottish Tartans and so it's been ever since.