Tartan Kilt Hose

A wee flyer from 1995. Wonderful day out with friends. A wee while later I would find out about my fellow clansman Captain Felix O'Neill an Officer with the Spanish Regiment de Hibernia sometimes called O'Neills Regiment sought permission to fight for the Jacobite cause with the French. He broke through the blockade on the Firth of Forth with artillery and gold and also bringing years of his military experience. Ultimately at the end after Culloden he would convince the Hanoverian sympathiser Flora MacDonald to aid the Prince. He had kept Charlie alive through near captures and then hatched the Betty Burke plan to get him out.

Well I think I have created a bit of a riot of colour with this pair of hose but I really think it works. The hose are for sale, direct message me if you want the details.

Little bit of fun

Great for wearing with yer big boots as well as yer spats.
Earthrise tartan at top and special weave tartan from Andrew Brookes Tailoring Edinburgh.

Here's a great idea illustrated here with diced hose for a customer in the USA. Instead of matching the whole tartan just pick two of the dominant colours.

The classics. Bottle green and navy and red and white diced.

Diced hose a great alternative to the Argyle patterns, especially for busy set's of tartan.

Had the pleasure recently of bringing a customers idea of interpreting a pattern he found in an old catalogue from the early 20th century advertising golf hose which cross over well with argyle and diced hose patterns for kilts.
The idea was to make a simpler version of the Gordon sitter hose in the Macleay portrait's.
So a blue/grey and black background marl with pink and black lines was picked.
A great way to offset your kilt as it doesn't always have to be about strictly matching colours in your tartan.

Had the chance to produce some more castellated Gairloch pattern hose this time in ecru and brown.
tartanhose

1840's Gairloch replicated design hose with their dicey pals. A marathon session hand stitching the castellations but worth it. Lovely commission for a special weave tartan from the Andrew Elliot mill in Selkirk, where I used to get my yarn spun together, once upon another life ago.

Found this oooout there. Love it. Jim Clark at hame in the Borders.