Box pleating formula?

**KiltedCodeWarrior** · 16th March 06, 08:22 AM

Pleater,

This one?

Not sure what you mean about one edge suppressed, but this has a traditional box pleat as described on Matt's site and on the other thread. Maybe it does not look like it because I am holding the pleats out?

toadinakilt · 16th March 06, 08:30 AM

I dunno guys, I think box pleats are my least favorite style of pleat...maybe there's a reason the kilt evolved into a knife-pleat garment...

IMHO, I'll shut up now.

**way2fractious** · 16th March 06, 11:22 AM

Originally Posted by toadinakilt

... I think box pleats are my least favorite style of pleat...
IMHO, I'll shut up now.

C'mon, Toad, it's the challenge! What maker of kilts, who gets his/her high from the sensual hand of worsted wool twill, can resist the siren call to experiment with all of the various kinds of pleat systems? I can't wait to get started on the military box pleat discussed elsewhere in the kiltmaker forum!

**Pleater** · 16th March 06, 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by KiltedCodeWarrior

Pleater,

Not sure what you mean about one edge suppressed, but this has a traditional box pleat as described on Matt's site and on the other thread. Maybe it does not look like it because I am holding the pleats out?

Yes, that is the photo I was thinking of.

If you look at the sewn edges of the panels, the edge to the left of the seam shows that the vertical line, the grain of the fabric, is being folded into the back pleat, but the right edge is a straight line - you can see the dark lines in the cloth vanishing on the left, but constant on the right.

When I tried to make a box pleat I sewed the two edges so that both were suppressed, and that made it easier to sew and to measure and have equal and matching under pleats. I still have another piece of the fabric to experiment on - the first one, I think, turned into a deeply folded Kinguisse, or did it evolve into the first reverse Kinguisse pleated kilt (so much cloth so little time) with a slightly odd fell. It does fit quite well, but it did not resolve the making of a box pleated kilt - I went off on other tangents after that, and the fabric is probably buried under one of the heaps of partly done kilts which now adorn most horizontal surfaces in the house.