Deciding how to pleat a kilt

[Jock Scot]

To briefly wander off topic, I think the Scottish Wildcat tartan is a super tartan and would be a smashing choice for those who have no Clan connections. Personally, I would go for the far right of the pleating choices that OCR has shown.

[jsrnephdoc]

About that I don't know, but with an online collage maker it's easy to string together a series of narrow images that imitates what the pleats would look like, pleated to the black block, pleated to the pairs of black lines (which probably won't work), pleated to the red line.

I didn't see the images in the précis delivered by email. Lawn-Chair effect painfully obvious, and I'd not be crazy about ANY of those!

The best way is for the kiltmaker to have the cloth so they can send you photos of mockups of the various pleating options.

Here are various pleating concepts proposed by kiltmaker Paul Henry for the Scottish Wildcat tartan.

It's amazing how differently they all look. (Personally I'd go with the one at far left.)

Not a spectrum of colors I've ever really seen in use in kilts before! Second from right least favorite (it makes it appear that there are DOZENS of far-too-narrow pleats