Pleating challenges #1: dealing with a too-wide central stripe

[Barb T]

Thought I might suggest that this issue may simply be due to the scale that the woolen mill (in this case Dalgleish) produced the tartan on. If the tartan were woven on a larger or smaller scale, this might not be as much of an issue.

Great work on the kilt, can't wait to see it!
Aye,
Matt

I think Dalgliesh did the best they could with the sett. The narrow yellow stripe is the smallest element in the tartan, and it's 4 threads. The only choice they would have had would have been to make that element 2 threads (can't have an odd number of threads in a stripe), and that would have made the sett only about 3 1/2". So.....just a challenging one to pleat.

I just have to put on the lining, and I can send it out! Should go out some time tomorrow.

Cheers,

Barb

[Barb T]

The narrow yellow stripe is the smallest element in the tartan, and it's 4 threads.

Oops - I didn't have my glasses on when I counted. It's 6 threads. But, you get my meaning. The sett would have been unacceptably small if they'd been able to reduce it by 1/3, and increasing it by 1/3 would have been a pretty big sett. I think they were pretty much constrained by the way the tartan was designed.

B