Military Pleats?

[Daaaaang]

If you're looking for military box pleats (which are, as far as I know, always pleated to the stripe), try these two:

http://whatpriceglory.com/scot.htm
http://kathyskilts.com/

If you're looking for knife pleats to the sett, that is the norm, and you can get it pretty much anywhere. Kathy does that very well, as do many people on this forum.

Any reputable kiltmaker should be able to get the wool for you.

[way2fractious]

I'm not a historian and do not know which regiments wore kilts of what pleating style. What I do know is a wee bit about how to make various styles of kilt pleats.

What you described is "pleat to sett." Most, if not all, regiments used "pleat to stripe" likely because it is a concept easy to understand by soldiers who had to make their own kilts from issued tartan. (But sewing perfect tapers between all those stripes in the fell is easier said than done!)

Here is a thread by JohnH, one of our kiltmaking members, in which he photo-documents the making of "military box pleats."

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/m...x.html?t=27980

Check Kathy Lare's site (in Daaaaang's post) because she can also create the military box pleat.

Daaaaang also has it right when he said,

... military box pleats (which are, as far as I know, always pleated to the stripe),...

I once played around with some scrap material and pleated it to the sett using the military box pleat style. My conclusion was that trying to recreate the sett with the small, loosely associated pleat "reveals" didn't work nearly as well as with knife pleats. In other words, it could be done, but why?

[Riverkilt]

Daaaaang is dead on. Kathy Lare went back to the Keith Kilt School in Scotland to learn specifically how to do the "official" military box pleats.

Can't hurt to call her or email her and discuss what you want. www.kathyskilts.com

She's hand sewn over 1,000 kilts and being a military family many of them have been of various military tartans and types of pleating...think her website has more info.

I wanted my RAF tartan kilt done with military box pleats, but she actually advised against it for a number of reasons instead of just taking the money and doing it. She'll tell you straight.

I own eight of her hand sewn kilts. Because of her quality workmanship.

She's in Albuquerque, N.M. No clue where you are...may work for or against connecting with her.

Ron