ForresterModern,

Do you have a steam cleaner? A Really good Steam Iron?

I have found a few bolts of cloth that when they arrive from the weaver are skewed just as your F&K fabric.


Quickly baste you Kilt as it came from Barb.

Build up a good head of steam in your iron and then put on an over mitt.

Set up an ironing board and lay the Kilt in the big flat end with the Fell on the ironing board and the pleats hanging vertically
Grab the hem, a handfull of pleats and pull down gently. You should be able to pull the fabric straight and take out the skew.

Then pass the Iron over the fabric allowing the steam to pass entiely through the pleats.

The idea is to warm the fabric enough for it to relax and let the skew fall out.

Then remove the steam but don't let go of the fabric until it is totally cool.

Then hold up the entire Kilt and see if the place you just did is now straight in relation to the rest of the Kilt. If it is then simply repeat the process over the whole Kilt.

I've had three times now when I have had to de-skew an entire bolt of fabric that just arrived from Scotland.