Kiltmakers have said here that what works best, for pleating to the stripe, is a single isolated narrow stripe flanked by broad stripes, like the black line in the green in Black Watch.
I don't see any place in Duke of Edinburgh that's like that.
The complex band of that tartan is pretty dense with tons of little lines all bunched together and might be challenging to do.
Seems to me that the closest thing to an "ideal" place is the pair of narrow green stripes flanked by broad blue stripes, except that the blue stripes have fine black lines in them.
The pleater might end up using the pair of unequal-sized red stripes on the broad green ground.
Much depends on the size of the sett.
BTW all I can find online are CGI images done by Dalgleish, I didn't see any photos of woven cloth.
Last edited by OC Richard; 22nd March 23 at 07:13 PM.
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