Quote Originally Posted by Barb T. View Post
--Kilts for dancers are not artificially weighted in any way, but they virtually all have hems that give them a bit of weight at the bottom. The hem is necessary because lightweight tartan is woven without a kilting selvage.
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Of course - a hem - Thanks Barb - I could see that the lower edge of the kilt was swinging slightly more than looked right, but as the fabric was a tartan I was thinking that it would be a selvage.

Without a kilting selvage the kilt would be hemmed, and perhaps for some of the younger ones the hem was larger than absolutely necessary, to allow for growth, so it would add just that little extra weight.

I MIGHT just have been studying kilts a bit too much y'know - getting into the dynamics of swinging pleats and the physics of folds...

Anne the Pleater :ootd: