Show me your (Robertson Hunting) pleats?

[bonnie heather]

I hope this works. It's the first time I've tried to send photos. These are Robertson kilts that I made.

[Barb T]

http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/e...r/P1000339.jpg
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/e...r/P1000332.jpg
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/e...r/P1000250.jpg
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/e...r/P1000246.jpg

I hope this works. It's the first time I've tried to send photos. These are Robertson kilts that I made.

In the third one (which shows the back of a Hunting Robertson kilt), all the tartan elements are there (squint your eyes, and blur out the pleat boundaries, and you can see all the elements), but the individual pleats don't pick up the elements symmetrically. A more conventional way to have pleated this kilt would have been to put the red stripe centered in a pleat and to have made the pleats on either side of it precise mirror images of one another (like PaulHenry's kilt above).

I hope you understand that I'm not criticizing - the original post asked about how to pleat the HR, and we've now seen 5 examples. If I were to make a choice, I would go with what was done in PaulHenry's kilt, because matching the tartan and having symmetrical pleats is most traditional.

Barb

Cheers!

Barb

Barb

[bonnie heather]

Barb....Thanks SO MUCH for your advice about centering the red stripe in the pleats. That makes perfect sense and would look so much better. Thank you for pointing it out and explaining the concept. You are so kind and generous with your help to everyone.
What a great forum this is!!

[McClef]

As promised, here is a photo of the pleats of my Ancient Hunting Robertson from Hector Russell.

[Barb T]

In this kilt, the elements are all there (nothing is missing, as far as I can see), but I would have done a couple things differently had I been pleating it. I would have made sure that the elements in the pleats were symmetrical (e.g., the double black stripe in the pair of pleats to the left of center ought to be mirror images of each other, but they aren't), and I would have put each single stripe in the center of its pleat all the way to the top (the red and white stripes are centered at the bottom of the fell, but at the top, they are not centered).

Again, I'm just offering this as something to think about for those of you who make kilts, since the person who originally posted this asked about how best to pleat this tartan.

Cheers,

Barb