Confused....

**Liam** · 16th January 16, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by Sean Wilson

It's a huge set - right? Here are pics of the pleats from the rear.

I think I haven't done the pleating justice in the way I have splayed them out.

That is a fine looking kilt!

**OC Richard** · 17th January 16, 07:10 AM

Barb, how would you approach that tartan? Looking over the tartan, darned if I can see how it can be pleated to the sett (or resembling pleated to the sett). I guess that's where the art of kiltmaking comes in.

I can't see how it could be pleated to the line, either. I could see pleating to the white line, but the background behind the line would alternate red and blue. I've seen kilts done like that, and were it my kilt it's probably what I would have ordered.

In any case the pleats of that kilt look nice, and I doubt many people would notice that the pleats don't fully reproduce the tartan.

**Barb T** · 17th January 16, 08:10 AM

Well, this tartan is definitely coronary-inducing. I totally agree that it can't be pleated to the sett - not enough elements occurring more than once per sett. There are, though, a couple of options for pleating this kilt to the stripe. You could pleat to the solid green block, although you'd have to do a test to see if it would look any good. You could also, of course, do a version of "catsup and mustard", where you pleated alternately to the white stripe in blue and the white stripe in red. Dunno how that would look either.

If the customer didn't like the options for pleating to the stripe, I would have decided to do what the kiltmaker did with this kilt. But, before I did so, I would have emailed the customer to explain what I was planning to do and why.

**Sean Wilson** · 17th January 16, 01:13 PM

given the size of the sett, I gave the kilt maker free reign with this one. It's unusual but I like the way it came out. And love the overall look. Thanks to everyone for their replies.

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**The Wizard of BC** · 17th January 16, 01:33 PM

Wow, what a coincidence. I will begin laying out the pleats for a kilt, in the exact same Tartan, on Tuesday. I'll keep you posted.

**OC Richard** · 18th January 16, 07:51 PM

I did see a kilt fairly recently pleated to a line, where the background alternated, but I can't remember what tartan it was.

As I recall it looked very nice, at distance looking like a usual pleated-to-the-line kilt.

Close up you could see the alternating pleat colours but it wasn't unpleasant at all.

BTW here's a lovely Hunting Stewart kilt, which I would assume brings up similar issues.

Seems that, like the kilt in the OP, the pleats are analogous to the sett rather than an exact reproduction of it.