Gretna Green Wedding Services
Houston Kiltmakers are a third generation family run business with over 90 years experience as gentlemans outfitters, Highlandwear & Tartan Specialists. We do a massive range of tartans, having the capability of producing any tartan to buy.
Using only the best materials, every kilt is hand made and tailored specifically for you by craftsmen and women ensuring it lasts a lifetime. Our emphasis is on individuality of service, with first class personal service guaranteed, whether in person or by our mail order service. We offer the best highlandwear money can buy. So whether you wish to purchase a complete highland outfit or just start with a kilt and build your outfit up gradually, Houstons have a choice to suit all budgets and tastes. You only buy a kilt once in a lifetime, it 's worth getting it from a reputable kilt outfitters. With all the professional service you require, even aftercare back-up if you need it.
Reasons why customers visit Houston Kiltmakers
- The only shop in Scotland who can show EVERY commercially produced tartans.
- Special weave any tartan if a stitch count exists
- Download all tartsns, clan crests, name spets, buy or hire brochures and videos explaining everything you need to know about highlandwear
- We have our own range of tartans
- We have facilities to design new tartans
- We teflon coat kilts to make them stain resistant
- We cut and make our kilts with adjustment in mind, to last you from youth to a lifetime
- We will make any garment you request, even special designs
- Free hire accesories when you buy a kilt
- Discounts for multiple kilt outfits and special discounts for pipe bands
- 6 months interest free credit
- Free shirt & tie or jacobean shirt or goods to the value of £40 on any cash or swith order over £500
- Tax free pricing for overseas customers
- Houston Kiltmakers is the mark of highest quality & guaranteed service.
- Our after care is second to none
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Tartan is unique to Scotland. As part of its national dress it has developed from the roughly woven plaid, coloured from local pigment dyes, in which early Highlanders wrapped themselves for battle to some of the highest quality and intricate designs that can be bought today.
Many of the traditions now associated with kilts can be traced back to the formation of Highland Regiments, yet for 30 years after the battle of Culloden and the ending of the Jacobite uprising of 1745, the wearing of tartan and playing the pipes was forbidden by the British Government. Any Scotsman who dared to wear the kilt was imrisoned or even deported to far away lands.
Highland wear was returned to fashion by King George IV when he visited Scotland. He adopted the wearing of tartan and this Royal patronage rekindled the life of tartan and Highland wear throughout the world.
Each clan or family name has its own tartan and clan crest. Each tartan has variations of ancient, hunting, modern, dress and withered colourings. In the past, official clan tartans were governed by the clan chief with final approval being made in the Court of the Lord Lyon of Arms which governed Scottish heraldry.
Most Scottish clans have their own tartan, if not you will find that they are affiliated to a clan which does. For example the name, Houston does not have its own tartan but it is affiliated to the clan MacDonald making that our official tartan.
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