Sett vs. Stripe

[pdcorlis]

Great illustrations Barb - its interesting just how much the pleating choice can change the overall look of a kilt - and the look of a kilt in motion. By the way - I've always loved that photo your daughter and her fella walking away from the camera hand in hand - Perhaps it should be on back cover of your book?

[herminator]

One great advantage of pleating to the stripe hasn´t yet been mentioned:
It´s much easier to alter the kilt!
I am slowly but steadily losing weight and have already had to make some of my kilts smaller ... it is much easier to take out a stripe pleat, the pattern doesn´t change as it would with a pleating to the sett!

[nixphotography]

Great illustrations Barb....... I've always loved that photo your daughter and her fella walking away from the camera hand in hand.......

I've always found as a photographer that a picture from the front does not always look the best. The back photo seems to have a more powerful feel, with lots of emotion.


Brett

[Barb T]

By the way - I've always loved that photo your daughter and her fella walking away from the camera hand in hand - Perhaps it should be on back cover of your book?

Neat idea! I'm going to completely re-do the covers, and that's a great idea.

Barb

[gilmore]

Barb,

Have you ever made a kilt in that rare, third way of pleating whose name I cannot remember, starts with a K (I believe) from the name of either the tartan or the place it was found? It has knife pleats going in opposite directions on either side of a center pleat, which is something like a box pleat, as I recall.

From the photo of it that was posted somewhere in X Marks, it looks as if it would feel...different...to walk wearing one.

If the new edition of your book included instructions on how to make this kind of pleating, it would be truly encylopedic.

[mddock58]

It's called a Kingussie, I believe.

[turpin]

Barb,

Have you ever made a kilt in that rare, third way of pleating whose name I cannot remember, starts with a K (I believe) from the name of either the tartan or the place it was found? It has knife pleats going in opposite directions on either side of a center pleat, which is something like a box pleat, as I recall.

From the photo of it that was posted somewhere in X Marks, it looks as if it would feel...different...to walk wearing one.

If the new edition of your book included instructions on how to make this kind of pleating, it would be truly encylopedic.

Kinguisse pleating, i think.

[gilmore]

Thanks.

I searched and found the thread with Pleater's instructions for making a Kinguisse pleated kilt here: http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...ight=Kinguisse

[Barb T]

It's not that I don't know how to describe how to make one (and I would actually describe it differently than Pleater did in order to make it compatible with the rest of the instructions in my book). Rather, it's a matter of how much time I have to put into the 2nd edition and how much it would add to the length of the book and the printing costs. I'll give it some thought, though. But, at the moment my inclination is to say that it's not likely to happen. Sorry!

Barb

[cloves]

instead of instructions on how to do the Kinguisse style.....what about just an inclusion in a glossary? as well those military box/roll pleats.
Just so the reader knows the difference?