Abercrombie Tartan. Help pleating to the strip

[Patty Logan]

Hi tartan aficionado.

I’ve been looking at the Abercrombie tartan for some time and was wandering if it was possible to pleat it to both white stripe as in a “train track” line or it’s just possible as one.

Curious to know your opinion.

Thanks.

[figheadair]

Hi tartan aficionado.

I’ve been looking at the Abercrombie tartan for some time and was wandering if it was possible to pleat it to both white stripe as in a “train track” line or it’s just possible as one.

Curious to know your opinion.

Thanks.

It obviously depends on the sett size but in any reasonably sized sett I'd have thought that the white lines would be too far apart for the two to appear on the same pleat unless it were a wide box-pleat.

[plaid preacher]

The white stripes are to close together to pleat straight across for a knife pleated kilt. You would have to pleat one stripe from each set - which of course is what Lamont, Forbes and even Mackenzie does. Peter makes a good suggestion that you could make a fixed please kilt that would include both adjacent stripes in one pleat.

[Patty Logan]

I'd have thought that the white lines would be too far apart for the two to appear on the same pleat unless it were a wide box-pleat.

Do you think box pleats wear common during the creation of this tartan? Maybe that why they chose the created this way?

[figheadair]

Do you think box pleats wear common during the creation of this tartan? Maybe that why they chose the created this way?

If not the only, then they were certainly the most common style at the time.