I can't help with the fabric, I'm afraid, but having found that I had made a mistake with a waistband cut across the warp threads I sewed the top of the kilt onto the webbing which is the reinforcement for all my kilts at the waist, then put black ribbon over the raw edges and sewed it top and bottom. Top to the webbing, bottom to the pleats.
Here's a photo of the apron, red ribbon and khaki webbing reinforcement inside and the black ribbon outside.
Military kilts used to be bound with the same stuff they used for the edges of horse blankets - which was green, no matter what the tartan.
You could use green, black - even purple.
I think that you should cut the fabric in exact halves - assuming that the set is exactly placed so it matches, to compensate for the lack of anything extra at the waist. The photo shows that the fabric is barely 53 inches - otherwise I would have suggested cutting that spare inch very carefully and sewing a narrow ribbon one side of it, and a broader one on the other, then sewing it so as much of that one inch shows as possible. The broader ribbon is for the inside of the band. Usually woollen fabric is 54 inches wide but with a custom weave and 'designer' tartan - obviously nothing is set in stone...
Anne the Pleater :ootd:
Last edited by Pleater; 20th October 14 at 07:18 AM.
I presume to dictate to no man what he shall eat or drink or wherewithal he shall be clothed."
-- The Hon. Stuart Ruaidri Erskine, The Kilt & How to Wear It, 1901.
RŽLyeh Sett waistband
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