Kilted Cultures, special pleats, tartan recommendations and hiroom clothes with the fittings at home in East Ontario.

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Most people who receive a lap in Canada never respond to the person who do it. You can twist the measurements on a website, select a tartan and wait a box from Scotland.
Ottawa-Area Kilmaker does not order Julie Ricard online, but you can order a meeting. You will appear on your home with a measurement tape, the piece of cloth throughout the kitchen table and “What do you like about it when you look at this Tartan?” Ask questions like? “Wish to know what color you caught your eye and what part of the pattern it pulls you back. Answers tell you how to do your clothes.
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“Trained Ricard in Scotland,” he said. Using traditional methods and eight meters, each cut and builds each of them.
Julie and her husband, Tony, Run Kilted Cultures, Barhaven and a Bespoke Kilt work that is near Maxville. Manages the seam; Manages fittings and logistics. Although Julie does not remain the executive director of Stapley, the Scottish Killmaker Shirley Stapley, who was established as Marshall Bespoke Kilts, began to help.
The couple is already traveling for Ottawa and East Ontario, for home interviews, frequent weddings, mountainous dancers or customers trying to adapt family heirs.
Tartan, a shared wool fabric consisting of horizontal and vertical lines in different colors. Some designs are connected by a particular family, region or military regiment in Scotland. In Kilmaching, the Tartan example determines how the fabric can be installed. Some customers want bold strips to be adjusted to the back; Others ask a certain color to be placed in front and center. Depending on these preferences, the change and layout changes fabric.
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Some clients want the casualties of their grandparents. Others start from scratch.
“It doesn’t need to be family oriented,” Tony Ricard said. “We have access to sectors who are not related to a surname.”
The region represents the regions, not families of Tartans. In 1955, Nova Scotia, officially accepted, was the first place in Canada. There are themselves in Quebec, Alberta and other provinces. Memorial examples record historical events or shared identities. The maple leaf, which was developed in 1964 and then known as the official scales of Canada, uses red, gold, green and brown, reflecting the variable colors of the maple leaves through the chapters.
A black and blue pattern, a black and blue pattern, was created as a fashionable tartan without historical affiliation. Glen agency contrary. The sequence of repeated colors or colors and lines along the fabric, found in the Scottish peat bog and restructured from the wool piece from the 1500s. This is believed to be the oldest tartan.
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Ricards, you don’t have to be Scotland to wear a kilt.
Tony itself is Métis. “I don’t have a Scottish connection,” he said. It is what he did in the Canadian Armed Forces, and employee knowledge about the traditions of clothing tuned in military and mountainous history.
“Thirty years of shape, you learn something about regimental clothes,” he said. “I appealed to all the major Kilt-producers in Scotland. I said,” Teach me how to wear it. “They sold the farm for me.”
Suppliers as family members – Edgar, Lochcarron, Strathmore, Margaret Morrison house and points directly to them.
“We’re not gateeping,” he said. “There’s nothing secret here.” Customers gives the names when the accessories ask where to be found. “You want Sporrans? Go to Margaret Morrison. I will sell Margaret Morrison every day of the week.”
It takes an eight-meter wool in styles that make a complete kilt, a military roll, knife edge, block strip or tartan pattern and customer selection.
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“We can bury colors, emphasize the colors and never understand the tartan with a kilton (and) you never understand,” Tony said.
Each clothing contains the things that they call “growth tiles”, which allows you to periodically or take over time, the dancers or a practical nature that is waiting for decades.
One of the oldest clothes to go through Julie was the black clock made in 1936. His peats were still clean and accurate, about 90 years.
“The legs in these dresses tell you,” Tony said.
Such sustainability is not limited to Heirloom, it adds. A client was wearing a special kilt on a tropical beach holiday every day. Julie said, “Rolls the water.” “If age is still very hot. It’s okay to go 100 percent.”

“You can wear it as shorts. You can wear like jeans. You can wear it like a kilt in clothes,” Tony said. “I saw a kilts dressed up to the Black Summer Tie Events and dressed them up to Maxville games by walking with a shirt – and the same dress.”
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While importing the tartan, Ricards keep a large number of supply chains locally. Compatibility Relationships are made by Nova Scotia Deamstress. The Northern Grenville manufacturer produces Trews (traditional tartan pants). Campbell is a basic tailor’s costume components design. Customer dresses for a special suitumer in Ottawaker.
“By working with us, your tongue will be adapted to each side because your tartan is the same bolt,” Tony said. It can all command the clothes of a family – kilts, pants, gardens, capes – can be cut off the piece of fabric.
Kilts are not limited to men, although Julie said that many people think that many people are different. “It’s 100 percent for the whole family,” he said. “There is no female version. Women wear the same kilt as men: the same length, the same length, the same thing.”
Most brochures, Kilt pins and Sporrans are brought from Scotland. Depending on the tartan, accessories and finishing details, prices vary. Only labor works around $ 700 and full orders can reach 1200 or more.
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“We want to keep the prices as low as possible for customers,” Tony said Tony. “You talk to us and you talk to us – you have a chance to defeat the MSRP you see online. But there is time and skill.”
“We do not try to change this million dollar replacement in Canada. We try to pay a request in the local area. Julie is having fun with it.”
“The day we didn’t have fun, we close the door.”
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