Traveling kilt

[Mikilt]

I've read a few threads about traveling with a kilt and the best way to pack it. If I am not mistaken, the general consensus is to roll the kilt. No basting required.

However, this seems to beg the question: Why aren't kilts shipped that way to begin with? I have a kilt I need to mail and I am considering getting a poster tube if I can find one big enough.

Good idea? Bad?

[auld argonian]

Somewhere back there in the Xmarks archives there's a tutorial posted by Robertson showing how to roll the kilt up and slip it into a stocking for travel….

….found it!

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...-travel-19516/

Best,

AA

[The Wizard of BC]

Some people do advocate rolling a kilt. I am not one of those.

To me I think compressing a kilt in any way is just like pressing it. Cold pressing if you will.

I like to ship kilts in a box large enough that the fibers are not compressed. If packing in a suitcase I try not to crumple the pleats too much.

I always hang my kilts the same way. With the two hanger method. When packing I simply remove the hangers and fold one more time lengthwise.
This is very similar to a kilt roll but loose.

If you need to make the kilt real small one more fold but in half this time.

If a customer is shipping a to me for repair or alteration I say, "Don't worry too much. Stuff it in an envelope if you must. I'm going to re-press it anyway".

[ForresterModern]

Although Steve and I may disagree about hanging a kilt, we agree with shipping technique. Fold in half lengthwise, then half the other way and put it lightly in a box that will accommodate it. Some of mine are, well, large (6'5" 275# ---me, not the kilt). Some I have shipped for various reasons have required a slight variant of first fold thirds and second fold half to get into the box. But the only time I "squeezed a kilt into anything I though might be borderline small was when I knew it was only going to me in that condition for one or two days. Any resultant incurred creases were quick to clear with hanging and or steaming.

When sky travelling (flying) I do roll my kilts, but using an entirely different technique. I travel with my kilts in a "Skyroll", a combination rolling carryon-garment bag, that has the kilts hung in the garment bag portion which is then rolled around the central "box" and attached to it. So in essence no part of the kilt has any 180 degree folds added to it during packing. I can carry three or four kilts (tanks) in it if I remove the hangers and stagger the waist and fell portions of the kilts (needed hangers go inside). But then when flying it is unusual for the kilts to spend more than 12 hours in their packed state, unless it is an overseas flight.

[Spartan Tartan]

When flying I have taken up the Skyroll as well. I tried it a couple times and found it to be a very nice and easy way to travel with a kilt (and associated kit).

For shipping, I would have the kilt folded as if I were wearing it. Then, fold lengthwise in half again followed by horizontal fold as necessary.

[Pleater]

I have an excess of pillow cases, and so when packing either to put away for a while or for travel I tend to reduce the kilt to a width to fit into a pillow case and slide it in with the waist at the closed end. I check that the pleats are laid neatly and then stack them flat. You can hold the waist edge through the material and pull lightly at the bottom edge of each fold, to get the pleat straight.

Usually they emerge as neat and uncreased as they went in, even if they have been under a little pressure.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[Father Bill]

Hi!

I roll mine as others have described and slide it into a case I once used for a now-defunct camera tripod. As it happens, it fits with just a wee bit of space and the zipper holds it gently in place.

[Stitchwiz]

I have an excess of pillow cases, and so when packing either to put away for a while or for travel I tend to reduce the kilt to a width to fit into a pillow case and slide it in with the waist at the closed end. I check that the pleats are laid neatly and then stack them flat. You can hold the waist edge through the material and pull lightly at the bottom edge of each fold, to get the pleat straight.

Usually they emerge as neat and uncreased as they went in, even if they have been under a little pressure.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

Emboldening added

Your kilts have been 'pressed' without steam or heat, I'd day that is a very practical and economical way to look after your kilts while travelling, Anne. Good planning!