Isle of Skye

[Barb T]

Is there any way to work the tartan so that the purple shows vertically as opposed to the horizontal way it appears in all the photos shown.

With a kilt pleated to the stripe, it's absolutely impossible to avoid horizontal stripes. Some kilts have more prominent horizontal stripes that others. Horizontal stripes are minimized when the stripe in the pleat is really different from the rest of the kilt and wide enough to form a really prominent element that you see before anything else. And even at that, the horizontal element will still be there (because that prominent stripe that you pleated to also appears at least once per sett horizontally.

In the IOS, the purple doesn't stand out very much, so it wouldn't give a strong vertical element. And it's quite narrow and would have to have something else with it in the pleat.

Here's an example of a kilt with a fairly prominent vertical stripe in the pleat that minimizes the horizontal striping (although it doesn't eliminate the horizontals, of course):



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