If you pleat a knife-pleated kilt to the stripe, you get more pleats out of a given length of fabric than if you pleat it to the sett. In an 8-yard knife pleated kilt, I figure on getting 3-4 more pleats into the kilt if I pleat to the stripe than I do if I pleat the same tartan to the sett. That's because you have to go over one full sett plus a little more for each pleat when you pleat to the sett. If you're talking about a 5-yard "casual kilt", the same thing holds true if you are talking about truly pleating to the sett. Of course, you can pleat to the pseudo-sett and get any number of pleats in.
Just for clarification. Was the OP asking about box-pleated kilts or the so called low-yardage knife pleated kilts offered by some makers?
Neither was specified. It was about pleating to the strip vs. the sett. However many beautiful box pleated kilts were given and discussed as examples of both options within the resulting conversation.
Originally Posted by The Wizard of BC
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