Hunting Stewart.

[M. A. C. Newsome]

You have to question your terminology when TWO respected kiltmakers have no idea what you're talking about.

I went to Cuillinn Craft, after having an absolutely horrible experience elsewhere, and gave very specific instructions on how I wanted my kilt pleated. I had never heard of "catsup and mustard" and had been told by at least one kilt maker that military pleating hunting Stewart was IMPOSSIBLE because it's an asymmetrical tartan.

When I explained that I wanted the kilt pleated to the double black stripe, he called it "pleating to block". I had never heard the term, but took his word for it, and ended up with the exact kilt that I wanted. The effect creates a "negative stripe" of the green field between two wide stripes of black.

A couple of observations:

1. Anyone who tells you it is impossble to pleat the Hunting Stewart tartan to "military pleating" (in other words, to the stripe) obviously is unaware that the Hunting Stewart tartan is a military tartan. They are also unaware that a tartan being symmetrical or asymmetrical has nothing to do with whether it can be pleated to stripe. In other words, I wouldn't buy a kilt from that person!

2. Your kilt is, in fact, pleated to the stripe. It's pleated to the green stripe. It's a different stripe than is normally pleated to in this tartan (alternating R/Y), but that's ok, so long as it's what you wanted.