Pleating to the stripe or stripes.

[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

[RockyR]

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

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

Actually, that one's a Stewart Hunting.

This also works VERY well when you're doing a 5 yard kilt and need to "cheat the sett" to make the back of the kilt look nice.

[James MacMillan]

Actually, that one's a Stewart Hunting.

This also works VERY well when you're doing a 5 yard kilt and need to "cheat the sett" to make the back of the kilt look nice.

Thanks Rocky - I can never keep them straight! I need to get better at reading tartans. I have them both, and I always forget which is which. One has the single yellow and the other the double. Oh sure, there are some other differences, but I don't remember.

Maybe I should label each tartan, as I am sure that I have told some people wrong, when they asked!