Box pleated kilt vendors?

[Riverkilt]

Kathy Lare of www.kathyskilts.com offers a military box pleat option.

Not to start any controversy, just to advise, apparently her box pleat is the the style she took special training for at the Keith Kilt School and may be a tad different than other kiltmakers.

Here's from her website about that:

"Returning to Scotland in May of 1999 she studied the unique crafting of the military box pleated kilt of the Scottish regiments and achieved an award in Traditional Handcraft Kilt Manufacturing. This professional development award paves the way towards becoming a Master Kiltmaker, which was almost a dying breed now in Scotland."

Kathy's a very genial lady and certainly happy to answer email or phone questions about her work.

And please folks, I'm only posting this as an option to the question asked, not to say her work is any better or worse than anyone else's.

Kathy has sewn up six kilts for me so far with one more on order. I highly reccomend her. And, like many other kiltmakers, when ordering a hand sewn kilt you only need make a half payment up front to acquire the material. The balance owed is paid when the kilt is complete and ready to ship. For me, that made addiction to hand sewn kilts easier.

Ron

[bubba]

Keep in mind that the military box pleat is much different from the standard box pleat that Matt uses. It's more like a knife pleat folded back on itself.

[way2fractious]

Kathy Lare of www.kathyskilts.com offers a military box pleat option.

...she took special training for at the Keith Kilt School and may be a tad different than other kiltmakers.

FYI -

The military box pleat is, indeed, an entirely different pleating style than a regular box pleat. The line drawing below gives an indication of the difference. A military box pleat kilt is essentially knife-pleated, with the knife-edge turned back to show the vertical stripe. It produces a heavy and totally awesome kilt. It also requires a lot more work than a regular box pleat or a standard knife edge pleat.

I have a kilt length of Weathered MacLaren and my intention is to build it into a military box pleat kilt sometime this year.

[cloves]

Fractious, did you draw that? It's the first time I've seen that many different types of pleating all in the same post. Thanks! I really appreciate being able to see them all at once.
If you add the Kinguisse and the reverse Kinguisse then I think it should be stickied.
Good work.

[way2fractious]

Fractious, did you draw that? It's the first time I've seen that many different types of pleating all in the same post. Thanks! I really appreciate being able to see them all at once.
If you add the Kinguisse and the reverse Kinguisse then I think it should be stickied.
Good work.

I must confess, I did not draw them. But I did lift the individual ones and put them into a single .jpg and relabeled them. The Kinguisses you mentioned are a combination, with knife pleats on each side and a box pleat in the center back. In fact, the inverted Kinguisse is what Utilikilts uses for their kilts.

As you can tell, this is way2fun!

w2f

[Riverkilt]

Thanks Bubba and Way2fractious,

That's what I was trying to point out but didn't know how to describe.

Is this a great board or what!!??

Ron

[sirdaniel1975]

Try These:


http://www.cuillinn.com/repro.html

http://www.angusharveykiltmaker.com/18thckilts.html

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I will say, my box-pleat was made by Matt Newsome. For quality and $ reasons. You just can't beat it. I will be after two more kilts from Matt in the future.

[Hamish]

You know, I am wondering if it is only kiltmakers based in the USA who will make box-pleated kilts? Perhaps it is because you lads over there go in for re-enactments and renn faires in such a big way (which we do not over here) that there is a demand for such a style.

In the past two or three years I have asked several Scottish exponents of the kiltmaking art if they tailor box-pleated kilts - and the answers have always been "No, sorry!" One actually told me that he is a kiltmaker, not an historical costume maker! I imagine it has something to do with the years of training and apprenticeship that they have to go through, and that they are given no experience of box pleating during that time. I am sure there must be one or two up there north of the border who would build box pleats if asked, but I know not of them.

Having written the above, I now see that our very own KiltStore.com in Edinburgh offer their Balmoral kilts knife or military box pleated. Sorry Nick and Adele!