Help need kilt with a bit of pink

[Uncle Ricky]

I have an almost nine yard length (which was cut in half and sewn together to make a great kilt - my first kilt). I have been thinking about having it made back into a regular kilt (or perhaps one of your box pleats), but for the life of me, I can't figure out how to pleat it. The sett is too big for either regimental or to stripe. Any suggestions?

Adam

How big is it? The sett on my tartan was 9 in. and it worked out very well pleated to stripe.

Cheers

[M. A. C. Newsome]

Well, all I can say is that the Aberdeen items I have for sale in our gift shop, woven by Lochcarron, most definitely have pink. Not an off-color red or purple, but PINK. Like you asked a five year old to find a pink crayon, this is the first color she'd point to.

Anyway, about how to pleat that tartan -- if a tartan has an unusually complicated sett, it may not be possible to pleat to a particular stripe (it may, but it may not), in which case the kilt maker will come up with some alternate pattern of pleating. In other words, I'll create a regular pattern, but it won't be the actual sett of the tartan. The other option would be to go the uber-traditional route and have it pleated to nothing!

If anyone has a copy of Bob Martin's All About Your Kilt he has pictures of two kilts, on pg 39, pleated this way. I beleive they are the Ogilvie of Airlie tartan. One is pleated to nothing, the other i spleated to a made-up pattern.

Aye,
Matt

[McMurdo]

Please take note of the date that this thread was started, I'm sure the original poster found something for his wedding, it was 3 years ago.

[B. Somm]

Hmmm...Gez only has 2 posts. I wonder if he ever found a tartan? I also wonder how the wedding went and if he has pictures of said wedding & resulting tartan?

Now that I think about it, I wonder if he ever got married and/or if he is still married??

B.