Wasting no time; Hall tartan box-pleat

[davidlpope]

Best of luck. It is hard to get blood from a turnip.

Cordially,

David

[Alan H]

Before I got the brain out of UK vocabulary I was thinking of Teddy boys and their drape jackets - but I think you mean curtains.

The weighted inserts for net curtains - the continuous strips, can be inserted into small hems or held behind tapes of a toning colour to give gravitas to a garment.

For a kilt the strip should be cut to allow the material to make a sharp fold, and if possible place it so that there are layers of fabric both sides of it as it lies within the pleats. It would not need to be inserted along every inch of the hem, just a few cm of lightweight strip would hold down a pleat and influence several more around it.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

Thanks, Anne...I'll look for this stuff.

[Alan H]

Best of luck. It is hard to get blood from a turnip.

Cordially,

David

Ain't that the truth..... This is going to be an experiment, that's for sure.

[vorpallemur]

Before I got the brain out of UK vocabulary I was thinking of Teddy boys and their drape jackets - but I think you mean curtains.

The things that keep the neighbors from looking in, yes.

[Smayniac]

If I may speak from my experience, you should probably add a liner around the weight, whichever sort you choose. I added drapery weight to my "Sport Watch" kilt and a couple of years on, I've added strategic bias tape to cover the wear from the friction of weight against fabric. I also put the weight in in sections to allow the pleats to fold correctly. This was all after using weight that was already fabric covered.
I was adding the weight to an existing kilt so I already knew where the folds were. Chain might work, but the links are likely to distort the pleats as well.
Bob

[Alan H]

In total disgust with myself, for all talk-no do, I have just STARTED.

I've blind-stitch hemmed a gigantic hem into this thing. Hopefully that will add weight. It's got to be about a 3 inch turn-up. I'm 2/3rds done with the hemming.

A few days ago I laid out the pleats and apron again, and pinned them in place bfrom fell to hem.

This morning I joined the box pleats to one another at the bottom of the fell, and ironed the pleats in, hard. I know this is daffy, I'm not done with the blind-stitching yet, but I'm impatient. It actually looks pretty good.

Interesting discovery...I spent some time with David Hall, our West Coast Commissioner at the Pleasanton Games. He has a Hall tartan kilt, obviously. Son of a Gun but it's made out of this same stuff...10-11 ounce. It looks fine. So does Pams skirt, same stuff.

So we shall see. I ain't gonna line it. I'm sick of putting it off and putting it off and I'm just gonna MAKE the thing. The lining material I bought, a navy blue twill, will wind up as a jerkin for the rare times I go out to play with the Guild.

[blackbeard]

Good for you Alan! At some point you just have stop over analyzing and go for it and let the pleats lie where the pleats lie.

[LadyGriffin]

We were at OshKosh, WI at the AirVenture air show and my Beloved wanted to wear his lightweight Stillwater kilt. It was a bit breezy, and all we had was some fishing weights. Well, 15 minutes of work and a weight in every other pleat and he was good to go. Not what I recommend here, but instead a vote for putting weights in the pleats.

Just my 2 cents

Julie