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17th January 09, 02:21 PM
#1
If you need help coping with asymmetry, just holler! Don't make any cuts or rips until you're sure you know what you want to do.
BTW - how much did you buy, and what weight is it?
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17th January 09, 02:32 PM
#2
 Originally Posted by Barb T.
If you need help coping with asymmetry, just holler! Don't make any cuts or rips until you're sure you know what you want to do.
BTW - how much did you buy, and what weight is it?
I noticed it ws described as 'Jura' which would mean 16 oz cloth from Marton Mills
One thing I noticed about the a-symmetry... look at the picture CLOSELY... the BOTTOM black line in the pic (horizontal) is on the OTHER side of the tartan. This MAY allow it to be cut and spliced, HOWEVER, the vertical kilt stripes will move from one side of the block to the other side at the splice. I'm ASSUMING that the grey / white pivot line just above the bottom of the picture is the MIDDLE of the bolt when I talk about the a-symmetry being splice-able... kind of.
Is this making sense?
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17th January 09, 03:08 PM
#3
Rocky, what sharp eyes you have! I don't think I would have noticed that.
Regards,
Rex.
At any moment you must be prepared to give up who you are today for who you could become tomorrow.
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17th January 09, 03:14 PM
#4
 Originally Posted by RockyR
I noticed it ws described as 'Jura' which would mean 16 oz cloth from Marton Mills
One thing I noticed about the a-symmetry... look at the picture CLOSELY... the BOTTOM black line in the pic (horizontal) is on the OTHER side of the tartan. This MAY allow it to be cut and spliced, HOWEVER, the vertical kilt stripes will move from one side of the block to the other side at the splice. I'm ASSUMING that the grey / white pivot line just above the bottom of the picture is the MIDDLE of the bolt when I talk about the a-symmetry being splice-able... kind of.
Is this making sense?
Indeed, I had noticed that 'inverted' black line too. I'm guessing, just guessing, that it may have to do with the fact the Chris at beartartan had supplied me, quite generously, with fabric that's several inches longer than their normal 27" single-width. They don't come in double-width. That point may be the middle of the bolt if it were doubled. And yes, the vertical stripes would be reversed if I try to splice. And I have 8 yards of it so no need to join. I'm planning to make a box-pleated kilt.
This will be my first time working on a 16 oz heavyweight wool. Excited and anxious at the same time.
Last edited by meinfs; 17th January 09 at 05:18 PM.
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17th January 09, 04:01 PM
#5
 Originally Posted by meinfs
Indeed, I had noticed that 'inverted' black line too. I'm guessing, just guessing, that it may have to do with the fact the Chris at beartartan had supplied me with fabric that's several inches longer than their normal 27" single-width. They don't come in double-width. That point may be the middle of the bolt if it were doubled. And yes, the vertical stripes would be reversed if I try to splice. And I have 8 yards of it so no need to join. I'm planning to make a box-pleated kilt.
This will be my first time working on a 16 oz heavyweight wool.  Excited and anxious at the same time.
Mein is right on this. The width shipped to him was actually around 36 inches (our normal width is 27 inches), but we had an excess on this part of the bolt and decided to ship the extra width gratis. Normally, the width would end at the overcheck crosshatch point (the midpoint of the bolt as Mein & Rocky correctly assumed) before the stripe pattern reverses (near the bottom on the pic on Meins post).
If you ask him nicely maybe he can make you all tartan flashes with the extra material. lol.
Oh, and we can supply double width if required. There's just never been demand for it before.
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18th January 09, 07:48 AM
#6
 Originally Posted by RockyR
I noticed it ws described as 'Jura' which would mean 16 oz cloth from Marton Mills
One thing I noticed about the a-symmetry... look at the picture CLOSELY... the BOTTOM black line in the pic (horizontal) is on the OTHER side of the tartan. This MAY allow it to be cut and spliced, HOWEVER, the vertical kilt stripes will move from one side of the block to the other side at the splice. I'm ASSUMING that the grey / white pivot line just above the bottom of the picture is the MIDDLE of the bolt when I talk about the a-symmetry being splice-able... kind of.
Is this making sense?
But doesn't it still make it impossible to simultaneously line up the selvedge, the twill line, and the weft-wise order of the stripes?? Or am I not thinking this through correctly? You could match selvedge and the twill line and the warp-wise order of the stripes, but wouldn't the weft-wise order still be a mirror image across the center back? You could make the weft-wise order work, but you'd have to flip the tartan, and the twill lines would be mirror images. Or am I screwed up somewhere?
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18th January 09, 08:47 AM
#7
Barb, I think you and Rocky just said the same thing.
 Originally Posted by Barb T.
But doesn't it still make it impossible to simultaneously line up the selvedge, the twill line, and the weft-wise order of the stripes??... wouldn't the weft-wise order still be a mirror image across the center back?
 Originally Posted by RockyR
... cut and spliced, HOWEVER, the vertical kilt stripes will move from one side of the block to the other side at the splice
I'll bet it would look cool as a Reverse Kingussie.
Ken Sallenger - apprentice kiltmaker, journeyman curmudgeon,
gainfully unemployed systems programmer
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17th January 09, 03:04 PM
#8
 Originally Posted by Barb T.
If you need help coping with asymmetry, just holler! Don't make any cuts or rips until you're sure you know what you want to do.
BTW - how much did you buy, and what weight is it?
Thanks Barb. I have 8 yards of single-width at 16 oz. (I'm going to study the tartan to see how I can box-pleat it to sett or to stripe.
Last edited by meinfs; 17th January 09 at 03:17 PM.
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17th January 09, 08:00 PM
#9
 Originally Posted by meinfs
...I'm going to study the tartan to see how I can box-pleat it to sett or to stripe.
The sett size is about 5+7/8 inches.
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17th January 09, 03:21 PM
#10
There are no words to express how JEALOUS I am!
I can't wait to see it because I know you'll do a fantastic job. Congratulations on a great score!
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