Pleating to the stripe or stripes.

[wingedferret]

I was wondering if anyone had ever thought about pleating the kilt to tow alternating colors, for instance in the Farquharson both the yellow and the red.


I think this could make for a striking effect.
could it be done? would it look good?
Would it Kill the Pleating?

[PiobBear]

I've seen kilts pleated to the stripe that are predominately one color, then "flash" another from within the pleats as you walk. It is a very striking effect.

[Wompet]

I had a MOD Hunting Stewart, pleated to the yellow and red stripes alternating ... looks like I took the pictures offline, though.

[Pleater]

I dont see any problem with that - if it gives you a good effect, then go for it - I would advise actually trying it in the cloth, just to check that the result is good visually - I suspect it would be the background colours rather than the stripes which would make or break the idea.

If the two backgrounds clash then consider other options, such as having the least vivid of the stripes and no stripe at all alternately. I think having the most distinct stripe and no stripe might be too drastic.

You might try having a colour change in the reveals - if you can get the same colour twice, so across two reveals you get ABAC, repeating across the pleats, it might work, so rather than the stripe in the centre you get the colour change.

I find that sometimes you have to take the fabric and try out the various options, or just make folds which bring different parts of the repeat together until something looks right.

[M. A. C. Newsome]

I had a MOD Hunting Stewart, pleated to the yellow and red stripes alternating ... looks like I took the pictures offline, though.

The Hunting Stewart, when pleated to stripe, is almost always pleated this way, because of the extremely large size of the sett.

I've seen other tartans pleated to alternate stipes as well. It works no problem.

M

[pipesndrumsnun]

It DOES sound like it would be a very interesting effect!
Are you going to try it?

[James MacMillan]

I've got a MacLeod Hunting (I think) that is pleated like that.

yellow - yellow - red - yellow - yellow - red - etc

[Macman]

Our Hunting Stewart military kilts are done this way too. It seems to work really well with thin red and yellow stripes, so I think it would look really nice on the Farquharson tartan.

[Riverkilt]

If you're not sewing it up yourself, your kiltmaker can show you each option, there may even be options you haven't thought of.

Ron

[MacWage]

It's not THAT uncommon.

A couple of my box pleat kilts are pleated to sett, which IS to alternate center stripes.
(I'll most picts later, as I don't think I have any.)