Advice on pleating arrangement

[meinfs]

For a box pleat, I like #1. It's a more natural pleating arrangement for box pleats. #3 is good for knife-pleat to stripe. Nice tartan!

[ardchoille]

For a box pleat, I like #1. It's a more natural pleating arrangement for box pleats. #3 is good for knife-pleat to stripe.

That's a very good point.

Nice tartan!

I totally agree

[ender103601]

personally i like the sett for a box pleat.
but i think #3 would look great with a military box.

[Barb T]

Whether you pleat to the sett or to the stripe with a box pleat kilt largely depends on the size of the sett. If you want the reveal to be 2-3", you need a pleat every 6-9" (3x the pleat reveal). If the sett is somewhere between 6 and 9", you pleat to the stripe. If it's much less or much more, you'll have to pleat to the sett.

[ardchoille]

Whether you pleat to the sett or to the stripe with a box pleat kilt largely depends on the size of the sett. If you want the reveal to be 2-3", you need a pleat every 6-9" (3x the pleat reveal). If the sett is somewhere between 6 and 9", you pleat to the stripe. If it's much less or much more, you'll have to pleat to the sett.

Very good advice, thank you. By the way, I really love your book.. very well done.

[Barb T]

Thanks!!

[Pleater]

I don't think you are limited to just three layers of fabric for box pleats - at least, I hope not - there is one pinned together in my stack of things to finish where the waist line has five layers of fabric.

It just seemed to be a logical development of the concept, to put more fabric into the kilt by making each inner fold longer.

It can also be made into a mirror imaged kilt, by having the backward or forward facing part closer to the outside than the other one.

Pressing it is going to be interesting.

Anne the Pleater