Isle of Skye

[woodard]

The effect generated by pleating to no stripe is nothing short of stunning. I wonder what other tartans would lend themselves well to that style of pleating. Also curious if that effect is possible with box pleats.

[Barb T]

This kind of pleating works well when all of the colors are comparable in tone. If there's a lot of contrast from stripe to stripe, you tend to get the dreaded lawn chair effect.

You can't make this work with box pleats unless you have a tartan with a really big single color block. The brown block in the IOS is only a bit more than an inch across. You'd really need a tartan with about a 2" single color block to have enough width of single color for a "no stripe" pleat. Not many tartans meet this requirement, actually.

Cheers,

Barb