sewn in weights (clipped from '4yd vs 8yd' thread)

[Pleater]

The weighting strip for net curtains is not nearly heavy enough to cause bruising - now the stuff for curtains is the sort of thing that could be used for a martial art - particularly if sharpened at one end and secured at the other so it could emerge from the pleats like feline claws....

[Pour1Malt]

the whirling kilt is actually a little-known move in Scottish Kung Fu. After kicking an attacker below the sporran, and before yelling at him unintelligably as he was kicked while he is down, ancient scots added injury to insult by swinging thier pleats at their enemy quite forcefully.

Masters of this technique once had small stones or spiked pieces of wood attached the their pleats for increased effectiveness.

Scottich kung fu is pretty dangerous, both to the attacker and the untrained practitioner!

aye.... ai'm a seeventh degree tartan belt!