Makenzie weathered tartan pleating...

[Kitfoxdave]

Oh great wizard of BC... I have some Makenzie weathered tartan and was contemplating pleating to the orange stripe... the sett is10.25 inches, so pleat would be about 4.5 inches with a pleat width of about 1 inch...
Any advice if this would work? Roughly 18 to 20 pleats ... this would only be slightlt deeper than my MacDonald of the Isle Hunting Ancient.

Thanks for your input...

[OC Richard]

Not the Wizard of BC but it's interesting that your MacKenzie Weathered would have an orange stripe.

Generally the various colour-schemes go

Modern colours: red > scarlet (a "warm" red)

Ancient colours: red > red-orange

Weathered colours: red > red-claret (a "cool" red)

Muted colours: red > red-claret (a "cool" red)

[Kitfoxdave]

Yeah, it is an orange thread...

[OC Richard]

That's interesting, I'd never noticed how "warm" (scarlet) the red in Lochcarron "weathered" tartans are.

Here's Lochcarron's Buchanan Weathered where there's a wide swath of it https://www.lochcarron.co.uk/buchana...-tartan-fabric

My Hunting Stewart Weathered is from Marton Mills and it has more of the "cool" red like House Of Edgar uses in their "muted" range of tartans.

[Kitfoxdave]

Pleats basted and initial pressing done. Hopefully tomorrow the fell stitching starts....