I guess I'm the only one who prefers a smaller sett. I was very suprised when my kilt arrived, I had no idea that the pattern was going to be so big. Its not that I dont like it, I just pictured being smaller. I beleive the tartan in my kilt is a 8" sett. While playing around on Scotweb's tartan designer, I have made every tartan with a 6" sett. If and when I every get the money to have Maccormick tartan custom wove, I'll have them make it with a 6" sett repeat.

I have read(I think on Albanach.org) that it was a larger sett size that made kilts go from 4-5 yards to the now standard 8 yards. Please correct me if I'm wrong Matt.

If I understand the above correctly, I wonder what the average (if there was such a thing) sett size was before they began to grow?