Katsup and Mustard.

[Kilted Cole]

I have a kilt that I love...Farquharson ancient by House Edgar.....Its pleated to the alternating lines....I was just wondering if anyone else has a kilt or kilts done like this....I used to have a Douglas that I gave to a good friend of mine that was the same...here are the pics. First the Farquharson then the Douglas.
alternating stripe.jpgDouglas 3.jpg
I was just wondering if you can do this with all kilts with two different stripes or not?

[The Wizard of BC]

The Canadian Scottish Regt. here in Victoria wear the Stewart, Hunting Tartan pleated this way.



And here is one of their kilts on the table undergoing a major rebuild.

[Tobus]

Edit: Steve beat me to it!

[Pleater]

I have some fabrics which will be pleated the same way - somewhere in the heap.

One is a tartan which I think is a Semple - I bought it as Black Watch and it wasn't. It has a fairly large sett which is what makes it easy to do the alternating stripes.

The other fabric is an asymmetric almost tartan which I will pleat to three stripes so it is half way between pleating to the stripe and pleating to the sett. It was cheap and I bought a whole bolt of it, and it is quite nice, but I sat and pondered over it for quite some time and almost decided to use it for something else - and then I had an idea...

I have rather a lot of fabric - and I have even more knitting yarn, so going searching can be hazardous, but if I come across my projects I will take a photo of the unfolded fabric and the pleated to illustrate the problem of a large sett size.


Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[Kilted Cole]

Anne, If you'll notice my Farquharson...every other red has a black border or guard flanking it....barely noticable...but I like the subtle alternations.

[WillowEstate]

alternating stripe.jpgDouglas 3.jpg
I was just wondering if you can do this with all kilts with two different stripes or not?

I imagine you could, if you have a regular repeating set of stripes. Not sure it would work on something like a MacKenzie with one red stripe bisecting every other white stripe square.

[New World Czech]

I have a length of Gunn tartan which, if I ever get around to it, I plan alternately pleating to the red stripe in the green and the green stripe in the blue.

[Pleater]

Anne, If you'll notice my Farquharson...every other red has a black border or guard flanking it....barely noticable...but I like the subtle alternations.

That's a relief I thought it was my eyes......

A the P

[Downunder Kilt]

The Australian tartan as worn by the Australian Army is pleated to alternate stripes.

[Barb T]

I imagine you could, if you have a regular repeating set of stripes. Not sure it would work on something like a MacKenzie with one red stripe bisecting every other white stripe square.

True. If, for example, the two stripes in question are the A and B in an ABAC tartan (true of the MacKenzie and quite a few other Black Watch based tartans), then the tartan repeats A B A C A B A C A B A C but the pleats need to repeat A B A B A B A B. There is no way around having pleats that alternate in depth from shallow to deep. This might or might not be acceptable depending on the actual distances.