Again, I'll remind everyone that the quote in that article was taken out of context. The person quoted was giving a rough estimate of the number of kilt makers still in the business who were trained in the old fashioned way via an apprenticeship under a master kilt maker. He was not including kilt makers who have learned their art via other means (classes, informal apprenticeships, self taught, etc.) None of that was reflected in the article, however, which just goes to show you can't always believe what you read in the media.

In any case, I was at the Keith Kilt School last month and they are now called the Keith Kilt and Textile Center. They have had to expand their focus well beyond kilt making in order to stay afloat because, as the director Linda Gorn told me, there just aren't that many people in the area who want to learn to make a kilt. So I don't think they are exactly turning interested people away. Rather, from my conversations with her, they are experiencing a lack of interested people.