Re: [Debconf-discuss] Ordering Debian Tartan Products
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 19:09:03 +0100, Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 01:06:44PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> > On 08/07/2010 12:00 PM, Philip Hands wrote:
> > > I should have got round to this before people started leaving DebConf,
> > > but in fact it doesn't make a vast amount of difference as I don't
> > > actually have any spare stock with me, but there is around 20 yards
> > > spare from the most recent batch that was woven.
> >
> > I really like the Debian Tartan, but i assume it's made of wool, and i
> > don't wear animal products. I'm sure the traditional tartan-makers
> > would be aghast at the suggestion, but are there any plans (or even any
> > possibilities) to make a batch of this fabric in cotton, linen, or other
> > vegetable- or synthetic-based material?
>
> I have a wool allergy, so if there was a plan to produce a non wool run
> of the tartan I'd be interested.
Interesting question -- I'll ask them when I talk to them about the new
tie order.
Looking round the geoffreykilts.co.uk site, it seems that they do cloth
in Polyester Viscose and Polyester Cotton, but I've no idea if that
would work for kilts.
Of course, we don't have to use the Edinburgh folks to do the work, so
finding some weavers who are used to weaving in the alternative material
and telling them the pattern (which we own) might be considerably
cheaper.
Silk would make much better ties, and would presumably look fantastic,
but Geoffrey's charge a fortune for it.
Cheers, Phil.
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