Interesting weaving issue

[English Bloke]

Blimey!! You put that kilt together fast

Nice. Were it me choosing, I'd have probably gone for "to sett" or possibly to stripe but using the black double stripe to ease some of that full-on horizontal across the pleats.

But that said, it still looks lovely as you've made it and reflects the picture beautifully. I do feel privileged to watch your works in progress. Thanks for posting threads like this.

[English Bloke]

But Rocky, would anyone but a kiltmaker or an astute X-marker notice that? Isn't that what they're banking on when they do it?

[Barb T]

But Rocky's right that this doesn't solve the problem from a kiltmaker's perspective - you have to flip the tartan over to get it to match along its length, and that reverses the twill line. But rotating alone won't reverse the twill line.

[RockyR]

But Rocky's right that this doesn't solve the problem from a kiltmaker's perspective - you have to flip the tartan over to get it to match along its length, and that reverses the twill line. But rotating alone won't reverse the twill line.

That's what I was getting at. I was speaking specifically to the example of the asymmetrical sett.

[M. A. C. Newsome]

I agree with Rocky that weaving tartan this way would not help at all with the asymmetric problem. I have, over the course of my kilt making career, encountered some lengths of cloth woven this way. To my recollection, they were all older lengths, purchased off of ebay or sent to me from a client for CMT work. Never from one of the mills currently operating within Scotland which I order from.

It doesn't really affect the kilt making one bit. Just surprising if you don't know what you are looking at.

[Barb T]

I ordered a piece of asymmetric tartan with a reverse in sett at the center line directly from one of the major mills in Scotland in 2000. The Lamont Heather that was the original subject of this post was custom woven last spring by Lochcarron.

[RockyR]

Just because they weave the cloth doesn't mean they think the process all the way through to how us kiltmakers would view it...

[Aspiringloser]

This is in my to do pile. It is from Locharron.

[Barb T]

Were it me choosing, I'd have probably gone for "to sett" or possibly to stripe but using the black double stripe to ease some of that full-on horizontal across the pleats.

I always give the customer the choice of pleating, and this is what he preferred! The black double stripe really emphasized the pink, and he preferred the green. Just shows that different people like different things.