Help with pleating to the sett

[chasem]

I'm not certain on this, as I've not made a kilt pleated to the sett, but I'm thinking the problem was probably in the pleat you have marked as your center-back stripe. It's not at a pivot point in the tartan. Which means (at least in my mind, and I think I'm thinking through it right) that moving 12 pleats either way is going to end up with a different pleat for the 12th pleat on either side.

In other words, it won't be symmetrical, because the center-back pleat isn't a point of the tartan that is symmetrical.



I'm not feeling like I'm speaking clearly.

In your image you have a set of three white lines in the red marked as the center back. The problem is that to the right, you have another set of three white lines, and on the left, you have the line where the red block meets the thick black line.

So, since you have asymmetry from that point, it won't be symmetrical at the apron edges.


From eyeing your image, it looks like you have 24 pleats, but 25 black marks there. It looks like the outside white lines (in the blue blocks) are the beginning of either apron, am I seeing it right?

[Kilted Taper]

Was that in English??? Kidding...I actually thought I had figured it out, but now you have me guessing. The stripe chosen for the center back was the red one between the 2 sets of three white you mentioned. HOWEVER, when I tried to keep that stripe in the center of the middle pleat, it just wasn't happening. The red stripe ends up as the edge of pleat 13 and overlaps the red on 14. Does that make sense?

There are 25 folds in the fabric which is why I am saying there are 25 pleats. They are of varying sizes since I wasn't going for erfection, just a rough estimate of what I would get as an end product.