Pleated to the stripe

[beerbecue]

To make it more clear what I am describing, I doctored these up..... The horizontal pattern will differ greatly depending upon the colors in the tartan, but I think the gist of what I am saying comes through.......

To the red stripe:



To the white stripe:



The horizontal pattern is much more evident when pleated to the white stripe. That was all I was saying - and yes, they do look VERY different....

[beerbecue]

Here is the same tartan, Sutherland Modern, from a different manufacturer, showing again the difference....

To the red stripe:



And to the white stripe:



To the white is much brighter, much greener, the horizontal is much more evident..... just due to the contrast.....

Now I just hope my bandwidth on my personal page holds up!!!!

[chasem]

Yeah, I see what you're saying. I agree that the white looks a little more crisp. Though I would think that the pleats would be a little thinner, showning more white than green. Am I wrong?

[Mike S]

Thanks to all for the time and energy put into your responses, I'm certainly glad I joined this forum.
I had intended to pleat to the white lines of the sett, and the illustrations posted further reinforce this decision. I agree that it looks much better over all. Cheers and thanks again.

[GMan]

Thanks to all for the time and energy put into your responses, I'm certainly glad I joined this forum.
I had intended to pleat to the white lines of the sett, and the illustrations posted further reinforce this decision. I agree that it looks much better over all. Cheers and thanks again.

Mike now you know why this is the special place it is, everyone pitches in.

[Kilted Kit]

Pleating to the stripe can look really flash as the wearer moves if there is a bright or contrasting colour or stripe hidden within the pleat.
This takes as much skill,I imagine,as pleating to the sett.

[Barb T]

Hi folks

All of these posts show why it's so important to take a piece of tartan and do a little test pinning to see what a kilt will look like pleated to both the sett and to the stripe. Even the same tartan doesn't look the same pleated to different stripes.

I have infinite respect for Jimmy's kiltmaking experience, and I don't often disagree witih him. But I do think that pleating a kilt to the stripe is a bigger challenge for a beginner than pleating to the sett. Granted, it's _much_ easier to l lay out a kilt pleated to the stripe, but the _stitching_ is really difficult to make perfect. Getting the stripe to lie precisely in the middle of a pleat for every pleat is tough when you're first learning, and little wanderings are a whole lot less obvious in a kilt pleated to the sett than they are in a kilt pleated to the stripe.

Cheers,

Barb

[beerbecue]

Oh yes, a wandering center stripe is VERY evident, indeed!!!!