Stripe or Sett?

[Tim Little]

I think it depends on the tartan, but generally I prefer pleated to sett rather than stripe.

That said, I've been won over to think that some tartans might look best pleated to "no-stripe" -- where pleating to either stripe or sett looks little too busy.

Take for example the Little of Morton Rigg tartan below:





There's a lot of white in the tartan, and while I probably wouldn't pleat to stripe on the yellow, pleated to "no stripe" on the red might look pretty good. (I'd defer to our expert kiltmakers to determine whether that would even be possible given the sett.)

EDIT -- On second thought, even if pleated to "no stripe" there would still some awfully strong horizontal white bands that might be a bit much....