Well, all I can say is that the Aberdeen items I have for sale in our gift shop, woven by Lochcarron, most definitely have pink. Not an off-color red or purple, but PINK. Like you asked a five year old to find a pink crayon, this is the first color she'd point to.

Anyway, about how to pleat that tartan -- if a tartan has an unusually complicated sett, it may not be possible to pleat to a particular stripe (it may, but it may not), in which case the kilt maker will come up with some alternate pattern of pleating. In other words, I'll create a regular pattern, but it won't be the actual sett of the tartan. The other option would be to go the uber-traditional route and have it pleated to nothing!

If anyone has a copy of Bob Martin's All About Your Kilt he has pictures of two kilts, on pg 39, pleated this way. I beleive they are the Ogilvie of Airlie tartan. One is pleated to nothing, the other i spleated to a made-up pattern.

Aye,
Matt