Hi everybody,

first and foremost, let me introduce myself:

My name is Sander Tel, I am 42 years of age and I live in Helmond (the Netherlands) I have found this forum as part of my research on kiltmaking.
I have been interested in Kilts for many years but recently I have found the time to really go ahead and make a kilt for myself.

The other day I have been shopping for cloths. Fortunately I live in a town which has 3 major/large shops which sell many types of cloths and sewing materials.

Unfortunately I have only found 1 material which is suited (in my humble opinion) to make a kilt out of. Of all the many yards of cloth in these shops, only one had a selfedge to it.

So I am more or less stuck with the one I have found. It is a lightweight, rather losely woven acrylic cloth with (I must say) a difficult type of tartan design. The colors have a hunting quality to it and in this regard it lacks a clear and obvious stripe in it's sett. I have come to turms with the fact that I need to measure the pleats to the millimeter and need to mark every pleat individually to get a good result.

I have desided to go with a knife pleat to the sett, and throught experimentation I found that an under pleat width of 10 cm (about 4 inches) (same as the set width) is best, also in regard to the weight of the cloth. I like my pleat width to be 2,5 cm (about 1 inch)

Well, so far so good, now for my question:
How can I do my pleating in regard to the difficult tartan design ?

Regards, Sander Tel.