Makenzie weathered tartan pleating...

[Kitfoxdave]

I am taking the plunge to make my first kilt... I have taken apart 5 and remade them with new stabilizer, canvas, and lining... redoing the aprons etc to a smaller size... So I think I can do this with the help of the AOK book and Robert MacDonald's videos...

I have aquired some Makenzie weathered tartan 13 oz about a 10 inch sett... I would like to pleat to the orange stripe... this would make the pleats about 1-1/16 wide...
The other option would be to pleat it as discussedMackenzie Weathered - test pleated to the red stripe and grey block.jpg in an old thread where Stephan showed this option....

[OC Richard]

The military MacKenzie kilts are pleated to the white line, which occurs twice as often as the red lines.

The sett-size is huge, as you can see. If they pleated to the red there would be way too much fabric in each pleat.

Also the military pleats are quite narrow, room for the white line and not much else.