I have seen many drawings illustrating some of the ways to pleat a kilt.
I have never seen anyone actually pleat up a length of fabric to show the different ways as it would actually be.
I had some time so I took a leftover length of X Marks Tartan is did some samples for you.
Each of these examples use the exact same length of fabric. I hope this gives a better representation than a drawing.
Please note that I put a white line right on the edge. This was to make the pleats show up a bit better. I also doubled the fabric to give more thickness for this example.
Here are knife pleats to the Sett.
And knife pleats to the White Stripe.
Notice that pleating to the sett gives a slightly deeper pleat.
Here are normal box pleats. (to the yellow stripe)
This is the pleating style we use for a 4 yard box pleat kilt. (Far fewer layers of fabric than the knife pleats above)
And here are double box pleats.
Notice that the part of the pleat you see is much the same. However I used two Setts per pleat so this would give an 8 yard box pleated kilt.
And finally a Military box pleat. (again to the white stripe so you can compare this to the knife pleats above.)
I have an Royal Regt. of Scotland kilt in Black Watch here in the shop and this is exactly how this kilt is pleated.
I hope these examples help some of our members visualize all these terms we use and help them make a decision on their own kilts.
Please ignore the basting. I did this over a few days and did not want to loose my work so stitched everything down. I think it still looks good enough to give you an idea.
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