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I must be doing, Aye, each minute
The grave will give rest when I am in it.
Before you act on my advice, you should check out my blog to see if I have anything new or alarming on the subject that hasn't made it onto the website yet.
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 I’ve been making kilts since 1975.
I got my start as a Kiltmaker during my first winter with the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, where I was attached to the Clothing Stores under the direction of the Quartermaster Sergeant.
There was a 'condemned' kilt being cut up for tartan-patches. I 'dissected' it in order to see how a kilt was made. From there I started refurbishing and repairing kilts for the other soldiers and eventually started making kilts myself. For the past several years, I have been mentored by a Regimental Master Tailor of the British Army.
It’s easy to be nasty about the competition (and tailors as a species tend to be fairly bitchy about each other) but many kilts that I’ve seen over the years – and every mail-order kilt that I’ve ever seen – are too flimsy to be worn more than a few times a year.
As an ‘Army’ kiltmaker, I make a very robust garment that’s designed and sewn to withstand daily wear.
I also fully guarantee my workmanship for the life of the garment. In over 30 years as a kiltmaker I have had only one kilt brought back to me – I had experimented with a new knot that proved false.
I do a great deal of repair work on kilts. I have done a great deal of refurbishing and repair work for the Highland Regiments of the Canadian Army, and there are very few kilts which cannot be ‘saved’ from the dustbin.
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