Hunting Stewart.

**Splash_4** · 9th October 09, 06:35 PM

OK, So I have heard on a number of threads about a pleating style on the hunting Stewart called Ketchup and Mustard. Can anyone share a photo of what this looks like?

Mike

**The Wizard of BC** · 9th October 09, 11:43 PM

Do you remember my thread where I was asked to repair some Military Issue Kilts?

The Canadian Scottish wear the Hunting Stewart pleated to Catsup & Mustard.

**Heming** · 10th October 09, 12:18 AM

How much material goes in each pleat? Half sett or one and a half?

**Arizona Scot** · 10th October 09, 12:26 AM

Would it be possible to also do that style of pleating with the McLeod of Harris?

**The Wizard of BC** · 10th October 09, 12:43 AM

It can be done with McLeod of Harris, Farquarson, almost any Tartan with two different colored overchecks.

The decision whether to use one half Sett or 1 and one half Sett is the size of the Sett.

The Military Kilts like above are made from an 18 oz fabric and the Sett is almost 8.5" so it can be done with a half Sett per pleat.

We have done perhaps 30 Kilts in different Tartans using the same principal of alternating colors. Some turned out really striking. Some not so.

We are currently working on an X Marks Kilt done to alternating Yellow and White.

**Heming** · 10th October 09, 12:53 AM

Originally Posted by The Wizard of BC

We are currently working on an X Marks Kilt done to alternating Yellow and White.

Wow, if you're in a position to post pictures of that, I'd really like to see the effect.

**St. Amish** · 10th October 09, 02:40 AM

I have a hunting stewart pleated to block, and i think it looks better than to stripe or sett.

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 10th October 09, 03:53 AM

Originally Posted by St. Amish

I have a hunting stewart pleated to block, and i think it looks better than to stripe or sett.

Can you tell those of us that are not in the know what "pleating to block" means? Pictures would be great!

**RockyR** · 10th October 09, 06:21 AM

Maybe he means pleating to 'no stripe' or the wide area of the same color. This would give what I've coined 'The Lawn Chair Effect' on the back... horizontal stripes. An example is Steve's IOS kilt pleated to the BROWN section.

**St. Amish** · 10th October 09, 08:28 AM

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.