Folding the Great Kilt

[tommyred3]

Hello everyone, I've recently decided to buy the material for a great kilt. 4.5 yards of 100% wool about 55-ish inches wide. I was wondering if anyone here has some interesting ways of folding the great kilt's top section after wrapping it. The kind of stuff that you won't see your typical braveheart fan wearing around.

Pleating suggestions would be nice too, I've been practicing with a blanket and I accidentally discovered how to do box pleats that actually stay quite nicely.

Thanks you for reading this, and thanks to the people who run this forum because it has been an amazing help already.

[Geoff Withnell]

I don't believe I have ever seen a box pleated great kilt being worn. Cool.

[tommyred3]

I don't believe I have ever seen a box pleated great kilt being worn. Cool.

I'll post pictures with a simple tutorial once I get my plaid.

[Laird O'the Cowcaddens]

I don't know much about this topic, however, I suggest that you might want to start your search with the people over at the Celtic Croft Store (one of our advertisers on this Forum). Please follow-up with photos of your research results.

[Luke MacGillie]

Im going to have to purposely take some photos, without weapons. All my photos of me wearing a great kilt also involve me using weapons, and end up getting banished to the weapons forum lest someone lose muscle control over the sight of a tool.

Anyway, You could look for some of my posts.

I still have not put a drawstring or belt in my plaid, but I do have one that I sewed the pleats in.

I tend to stick to actual period descriptions and what can be inferred from paintings, not practices that originated in the costume trailer while filming Lethal Claymore!

Best think I can say is divorce yourself from any desire to replicate a modern kilt, the pleats are not going to be sharp, if you do any sort of living while wearing the garment, its going to not look as good as when you first put it on and Im sure I will think of something more as this thread goes along

[Derekc5555]

How do you pleat to the set?

[Pleater]

There is a behind the scenes discussion between your moderators on the rules about weapons at the moment, but you might have edited for no reason - images of historic or historically accurate kilted soldiers with their weapons are not forbidden.

I am assuming that it is an accurate recreation - of course.

Anne the Pleater