Pleating challenge #3: pleating an asymmetric tartan

[ChattanCat]

Is there a list of asymetric tartans? I know of the MacDonald dress, Maple leaf, and MacMillan. I dread the day when I order a 4 yd double wide and then find out it is asymetric. Can you help me put a list together?

[Bugbear]

* It's already on the list, never mind. *

[Barb T]

I put a list into my book at the beginning of the appendix on dealing with asymmetric tartans (p. 145) and also in a footnote in chapter 5 (page 45).

Here's the list that's in the book:

Buchan
Buchanan and Hunting Buchanan (but not Old Buchanan or Dress Buchanan)
Campbell of Argyll
Dress Campbell
Drummond of Strathallen
MacAlpine
Dress MacDonald
MacMillan
Malcolm
Hunting Stewart (but not the other Stewarts)
Ontario Provincial
Quebec Provincial

Also need to add (not in the book):
Bear
Connecticut
Maple Leaf
PSD: Project Iraqi Freedom

Fortunately, there aren't many _common_ tartans that are asymmetric, but you can be ambushed by a less common one. The good news is that, if it's truly not common, you'll probably have to have a custom weave done anyway, and, if you have Dalgliesh do the custom weave (which I would recommend), they do their custom weaves in single width.

You can always go to the Scottish Register of Tartans (http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/index.aspx) and check a tartan. This is a much better idea than checking a thumbnail on ScotWeb or a similar site, because the thumbnail might not show the entire sett. But, in the Scottish Register of Tartans, be _sure_ to click on the tartan pic and look at the enlarged view. The default small view can look asymmetric, even if it's not, depending on your screen resolution and the number of small stripes in the tartan. For example, the Mull Millenium tartan (http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tar....aspx?ref=3044) looks asymmetric on my laptop screen (only one of the white guard stripes shows in the low res default view), but, when I click to the see enlarged version, it's clearly symmetric (both white guard stripes show).

[JolyStNicholas]

That is a grand job indeed lassie. Well done!

[Pleater]

Early in my sewing of kilts I bought a whole bolt of an asymmetrical tartan-ish fabric.

It is pleasing to the eye, lavender, purple and black, but it doesn't rotate and match up.

No worries anyway, because the right side is brushed so it has to be cut across the width.

This kilting thing wouldn't be half so fascinating if it was easy.

Folding fabric into pleats to make a kilt has to have a solution but it is as intriguing as Sudoku puzzles, or crosswords.

That is a fine looking kilt there, Barb - and a nice bit of matching on the waistband too.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: