The anniversary of the Act of Abolition (1st July, 1782) is just a little over a month away. What better time for the Scottish Tartans Museum to introduce this new t-shirt featuring art by Shaun Maxwell?
As can be seen on my main website , I have, since September of last year, put a hold on taking new kilt orders. The primary reason is to allow me to catch up on my large backlog of orders. For some time, the rate of new kilt orders coming in has outstripped the rate at which I can make them, leading to extended wait times for my customers (which neither they nor I are happy about). This temporary hold is allowing me to remedy the situation by working through current outstanding orders without new orders being added to the back end of my order queue faster than I can turn new kilts out. So far it is working. My kilt order queue is currently stands at 18 kilts. For years now it has been in excess of 30 kilts at any given time, so I am quite happy to see the smaller number. However, it is slow going. As most of my followers are aware, kilt making is not my full time job. While a full time kilt maker may be able to complete a kilt in 2 or 3 working days, my wor...
As usual, I've been too busy to blog much lately, but wanted to share these photos to show that we're still busy creating and shipping out some wonderful and unique Highland dress items! Here are a pair of Colquhoun kilts -- oddly enough, made for two different, unrelated clients. The one on top is reproduction Colquhoun from DC Dalgliesh. It's a four yard box pleated kit that shipped out with a matching tartan waistcoat (not pictured). Then below it is the cloth for an ancient Colquhoun kilt. The cloth was supplied by the client, but I believe it was Lochcarron woven. That was made up into a six yard box pleated kilt. The above two photos are of a four yard box pleated kilt in the 42nd band tartan, Wilsons of Bannockburn historic colors. This tartan is the same as the Black Watch, with the black replaced with red. I love the pleat detail shot, which shows the nearly invisible hand stitching! Let's not forget about the knitwear! Here is a ...
My client for this Macbeth tartan kilt (four yard, box pleated) requested that I take some "in progress" photos as I was making it. I was happy to oblige.
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