Quote Originally Posted by KiltedCodeWarrior View Post
Beautiful, and I don't know if Chrystel came up with the idea of knife pleats reversing in the center with a box pleat, but it is positively genius!
This style of pleating dates back at least to the 1820-1840s era. It's called a "Kingussie" pleat because for a while the only surviving historic example of a kilt pleated this way was housed in the Highland Folk Museum in Kingussie, Scotland. (We have a replica of this kilt in the Scottish Tartans Museum).

A few years ago we had a kilt donated to us from the same era (1840s) that was also pleated in this same style, so now there are two surviving historic examples that I am aware of. This kilt is currently on display in the Scottish Tartans Museum.

So it is an old style of pleating, though it never has been a common one. Historically, though, these kilts had only 4 or 5 yards of cloth.