US Navy Tartan Pleated to the Sett?

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How much material is in the kilt? The pleats look like they may be wide enough - depending on the size of the kilt - that it may be in the neighborhood of 6 yards. If that's the case, it may have been difficult to duplicate the sett in the pleats, in which case an approximation may happen.

It looks like an extra pleat could have been used between the white stripes in the lighter blue to space them out a little more, but you're looking at at least three more pleats that way, and the fabric might have been there for that.

That's not to say there's not a better/different solution



ETA: the white stripes in the Edzell tartan actually aren't equally spaced, but it's the darker blue that is surrounded by the closer stripes rather than the lighter blue as in your kilt. So in my mind it would have made more sense to do two pleats of light blue between the whites and one pleat of dark blue rather than the opposite as it appears on your kilt.