Campbell of Breadalbane

[OC Richard]

As for the “train track” line on blue, I had a similar idea when it came to the black watch tartan but was told by several people (including Peter) that the pleats would have to be very very deep since the they don’t repeat every time just every 2nd time on blue if you know what I mean? And thoughts would be more expensive since it will require twice as much fabric.

I've seen it done, because in fact the "train track" lines appear in every blue square, alternating centred and at the sides.

What they did was offset the black lines slightly to the same side of each pleat, due to the side black lines being too close to the black stripe. The wider the pleats, the more the offset.

Because in every other blue square the black pair of lines has plenty of room on both sides, and in the alternating squares only plenty of room on one side.

Yes on the inside of the kilt it will be seen that the depth of the pleats alternate. But on the outside all the pleats look the same. My Hunting Stewart kilt is like that.

I think this is only practicable if the sett is large enough. If the sett is too small then every other pleat is too shallow.