Best Tartans Pleated to Stripe?

[Jimmy Carbomb]

You know my preference on sett pleating, but that "Leatherneck" tartan pleated to the stripe is truly a thing of beauty!!! In fact, I don't think that it can be any other way and retain the striking characteristics. That also requires that the kilt be made VERY precisely so that the pleats hang and sway with uniformity.

I also have seen "Cameron of Erracht" done with the yellow-in-red striping being the pleats. Wow! Was that ever gorgeous?! The front apron was just busy enough not to draw the eye immediately to the pleats. It looked as though there were twice as many pleats as there actually were/was.

[macwilkin]

A number of the tartans mentioned so far are tartans associated with military organizations, such as Scottish regiments of the British Army and the US Marine Corps:

Gordon: The Gordon Highlanders
Mackenzie: The Seaforth Highlanders & the Highland Light Infantry
Douglas: The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
Cameron of Erracht: The Cameron Highlanders

There are also a number of Commonwealth Scottish regiments in Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand that wear several of these tartans. (To be fair, some only had pipers in kilts, whilst officers and other ranks wore tartan trews.)

I would also suggest the Murray of Atholl, which was worn by the Atholl Highlanders (The Duke of Atholl's "private army") and The Transvaal Scottish (South Africa), and the Stewart Hunting, which was worn as a kilt by several battalions of the Royal Scots Regiment. I'll have to see what stripe their kilts were pleated to.

Pleating to the stripe is traditionally (but not exclusively) associated with military kits (although I am NOT suggesting that anyone but the military should do it!)

Cheers,

Todd

[beerbecue]

The thing I like about the Armstrong and Atlanta, both based on Black Watch, I believe, is that they have a distinct red stripe over the BW, just in different parts of the sett.

That red stripe, over the dark blue and black, is very striking - I will post a photo of the Atlanta I have been working on for far too long (I have taken a break to pack up!) but I have a few pleats finished.....

[macwilkin]

cavscout: the Transvaal Scottish Regiment wear the Murray of Atholl tartan. My e-mail made it sound like they have their own tartan -- I'm going in to correct that now! :mrgreen:

Cheers,

Todd

[mkmound]

This weekend while I was at the Texas Scottish Festival, I was looking at the Texas Bluebonnet tartan bolt at one of the booths, and I was thinking that it might look good pleated to stripe. Here are a couple of links to sites that, at least on my monitor show the overall colors accurately, at least for the lighter blue. (Most sites show it as more of a bright turquoise blue.) The narrow dark red stripes, however, were more prominent.

http://www.scotlandforever.net/bluebonnet.html

http://www.district-tartans.com/texas.htm


This next link shows more of the overall repeat -- the blues are off on my monitor, and the yellow / gold stripe in this example was white or light grey on the bolt I saw (like the earlier links):
http://www.tartans.scotland.net/tart...tartan_id=2303

I have been thinking that pleating to the white / light grey stripe might be nice, with the dark red and green stripes revealed as the pleats move . . . thoughts?

Regards,

Mark