Pleat depth spacing preferences?

[Alan H]

The tartan you ue will define the depth of pleat. If you're using a solid color, then having pleats with about a 1-inch reveal looks pretty good. 1.5 inches is OK, in my personal opinion, moe than that doesnn't look right. figure it this way...

Me **** is 46 inches around. Without getting into the specifics of "splits" (buy Barbs book and you'll understand) roughly half of that 46 inches is going to be covered in apron, and half is going to be covered in pleats. so if my pleats are 1-inch reveal, that means 23 pleats.....a good number for a kilt.

If the reveal is 1.5 inches, well 23 inches divided by 1.5 = 15.3 pleats....OK 15 and that's marginal. It's OK...it's not BAD, but it's the bare minimum, in my personal opinion.

If you go with a one-inch reveal, then anything less than two inches buried in each half of the pleat is going to make an awfully shallow pleat. So that means each pleat is going to take up...2 + 2 + 1 = 5 inches.

If you were pleating a tartan to stripe, and the sett was 5 inches, then this is how deep your pleats would be. If the sett were 6 inches and you were using a 1-inch reveal, then the buried part of each pleat would be 2.5 inches.