How an Engineer lays out pleats

[kiltedwolfman]

Here's a pic of an Anderson tartan kilt I made a while ago using this matrix. This tartan has a lot of lines and was a bit of a pain to get sorted out but as you can see there is no point where the pattern is lost as it goes up the fell. You can see that I've got just under a quarter of it pleated, but that all the pleats are pressed and ready to be pinned down.