Pleated to sett or stripe?

[Barb T]

When a kilt is pleated to the stripe, every pleat is identical. So the kilt in the first post in this thread is definitely not pleated to the stripe, even though there is, in fact, a stripe down each pleat. The kilt below shows what pleating to the stripe is:



The kilt shown in the first post in this thread is not pleated to the sett, either, because the sett is not replicated in the back of the kilt. It's close, but you'll notice that the red stripes on the edges of the triple green blocks aren't present. The kiltmaker also didn't make any attempt to preserve the proportions of the tartan sett.

Having said this, you'll notice that the tartan sett is _huge_ - I'm guessing 12" based on the likely size of the apron. It's always a challenge to pleat a tartan with a huge sett, so sometimes a kiltmaker makes compromises when trying to pleat such a tartan. I don't know if the maker was a knowledgeable kiltmaker or not, so it's hard to say why he/she chose to do it this way.

Steve is right that the center back and front stripes should be the same.