wanted: pics of kilts in some rare tartans

[Mr. MacDougall]

Heck, while we're at it, if anyone has a kilt in the Blue Stewart tartan, I'd love to see that!

[Riverkilt]

Well, that makes sense....Coyote's afoot in the mills too eh?

I'd just read it was taken from a scrap of a vest (?) someone gave Prince Charlie to wear before Culloden...and if Dalgliesh wove it...figured it was good to go.

Sorta like name changes at Ellis Island - they ain't right, but they're the name today....if it ain't right, its still Macdonald of Kingsburgh tartan today.

Is this a great board or what? Never woulda known. Still gonna wear the kilt in honor of my branch of the clan.

[skauwt]

this is a cooper tartan whether is ancient im afraid i cant remember ,
my childhood friend martin cooper on his big day (left) and a friend of his world class piper wullie mccallum(right) on his big day last july if anyone can confirm if its the ancient cooper i`ll hunt out other pics from his big day and show the kilt

[OC Richard]

Ooohh I really like that Cooper kilt! It's a nice large man's kilt sett size too.

Do you know what mill it was woven by?

Thanks! Richard

[skauwt]

it was either the house of edgar or lochcarron of scotland it came from ,
he actually bought the kilt the same day i got mine from Hector Russell in Glasgow about february or march 09
i tried searching through my old posts for the info as i can remember talking about it but the posts don't seem to go that far back

this is a photo i found on my pc from a picture text he sent me when he picked it up last year

[RockyR]

It looks like the Cooper 16 oz from House of Edgar. It is th Modern version (ancient would have LIGHT blue and LIGHT green).

[Nighthawk]

MacLeod Hunting ancient:



Not one of the ones on your list, but you asked for pics of rare tartans. MacLeod hunting is common. The hunting/ancient combination is not.

[slohairt]

MacLeod Hunting in Ancient is a great tartan, but it's actually very common. Every mill weaves it.

[Nighthawk]

MacLeod Hunting in Ancient is a great tartan, but it's actually very common. Every mill weaves it.

Oh. I had to specifically request it. It wasn't a special weave or anything, but I don't see it listed in the standard choices very often.


...or maybe I just felt like showing it off...

[OC Richard]

One of the fantastic things about this forum is the enormous variety of kilts that the members have.

I really would love to see photos of some of the following tartans made up into kilts, and especially how they're pleated etc.

Scotland Forever

Strathisla

Spirit of Scotland Ancient

Western Isles

O'Reilly

Lindsay Weathered

Cooper Ancient

Alba Heirloom

thanks so much for any photos you have! Richard

Sorry to resurrect this old thread but I recently came across it and noticed that of the tartans I listed, the Cooper was the only tartan that an XMarker contributed photos of.

Most of the above, I've yet to see made up into a kilt anywhere.

I did come across some photos and I thought that they might be of interest to someone:

Spirit of Scotland, both the Lochcarron swatches of Modern and Ancient I have, and in a kilt:





Strathisla, both in a Strathmore swatch and in an outfit:





Spirit of Bannockburn, both swatch and outfit:





I've discovered, in correspondence with various kilt hire firms in Scotland, that Spirit of Bannockburn is made solely for the kilt hire industry, and it seems that the only way to get a kilt in it is to buy an ex-hire kilt. If I recall correctly, February is when the kilt hire shops have their sales of ex-hire kit. (Not the time I'd normally visit Scotland!)

Not on my list, but another recent Trade Tartan that I've just now noticed being worn quite a bit, Scotland2000 or Scotland 2000, being worn by a pipe band in Scotland:



And the recent Auld Scotland: