Have you tried pleating it to the white stripe or the red stripe? The white stripe is the dominate stripe but pleating to the red strip would change the pleated portion to red from the dominant green of the tartan.
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Actually, the sett in the back is not usually the same as the apron. It has to do with the width of the pleats and what material is available for the pleats. The pleats in the back are dependent on the sett. It is normal to have the pleat depth variing depending on the sett, just to economize the material to an 8 yard kilt.
Wallace Catanach, Kiltmaker
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No reason that if a man finds a tartan he likes he can't have kilts made up in that tartan to the sett and to the various stripes...one of each is a good thing.
Ron
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Sorry I just meant which is this pleated to? What would you call it? Pleated to stripe or pleated to sett. I'm not sure. This is a kilt I purchased from Scotland a few weeks ago.
No reason that if a man finds a tartan he likes he can't have kilts made up in that tartan to the sett and to the various stripes...one of each is a good thing.
Actually, the sett in the back is not usually the same as the apron. It has to do with the width of the pleats and what material is available for the pleats. The pleats in the back are dependent on the sett. It is normal to have the pleat depth variing depending on the sett, just to economize the material to an 8 yard kilt.
I didn't know that. So this would be called pleated to sett then I take it.
It is actually pleated to the Stripe. If you look at each pleat there is a stripe down the center of each one.
It's interesting that they were able to almost imitate the Sett while pleating to the Stripe. Kinda cool concept.
If this were pleated to the Sett the ratio of the Sizes of the elements of the Tartan pattern should be the same front and back.
As ChattanCat says you can't always make it perfect but at least the ratios should be the same.
Also, if pleating to the Sett all of the elements of the Sett should still be present even if the overall Sett is squished or stretched a by 1 or 2%.
Pleating this way breaks some of the rules though. The prominent stripe used for the center of the outer apron should be centered in the back too.
I also think that the back looks sort of busy. That may only be the Tartan so I will have to look at and experiment with some other Tartans and see what a different Tartan would look like
Steve Ashton www.freedomkilts.com Skype (webcam enabled) thewizardofbc
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