What tartan is this?

[lschwartz]

The definition of Tartan is a plaid that is the same up and down (verical) as it is side to side (horizontal). So everything is squares.
What you are seeing in this video is just a bit confusing to someone not familiar with how fabric is folded to create the pleats of a kilt.

The kilt in your video is pleated so that the same vertical element of the Tartan goes down each pleat. It creates a very different look than the whole flat fabric used in the aprons.

In this photo you can see examples of what I am describing.
The Tartan is the X Marks which you can also see as the wallpaper of this forum.

On top is the fabric laid out flat. You can see the entire design.
But below the fabric has been folded differently.

Notice that when the fabric is folded so that a single element of the Tartan goes down each stripe the total effect is quite different and can appear to be a different Tartan.



If you will look at the video again, look at time mark 2:35. Just after Howie is showing the kilts hanging on the rack you see a quick shot of the kilt in question laying on a shelf. You can now see the entire Tartan pattern. It is much clearer that this Tartan is Tara/Murphy and is the same warpwise and weftwise.

Steve,

In looking more carefully at the pleated tartan on the bottom of your picture, am I correct in saying that this is an example/illustration of five different ways you can pleat a kilt, and not the actual pleating for someone's actual kilt that you are making? Starting from left to right it looks like an example of pleating to the sett, then pleating to the faint three part "stripe", then pleating to the no-stripe, then pleating to the gold stripe, and finally pleating to the bold white stripe.

Larry