Brighton Pride Kilt -details

[starbkjrus]

Very very nice.

[caig]

Wow ! That is outstanding Paul. Well done.

[Hamish]

I should like to add my congratulations and praise of your talents (design, sewingmanship(!) and photography) Paul. Very well done indeed.

I love it!

Take care,
Ham.

[NewGuise]

Nicely done - something else to proud of at Pride.

[Lee]

Nicely done, PaulHenry.

Lee

[GDub]

I missed this post... Great pics Paul, and what a cool kilt! Bravo!

[twsutton]

I love the double box pleat, the other day at the tartan shop with Sir William the shop owner could not get enough of his Lady Chrystel Double Box Pleated kilt.

That linen fabric sounds interesting. How difficult is it to press a double box pleat kilt?

I don't mean to be rude, but in PaulHenry's first post he says that it's a Double Knife-pleat kilt, not a Double Box-pleat kilt.

[Bugbear]

I don't mean to be rude, but in PaulHenry's first post he says that it's a Double Knife-pleat kilt, not a Double Box-pleat kilt.

I can't look at the pictures, so have to go by what the other posts say. Not knowing what a double knife pleat is, I had to assume from McMurdo's post that it was a double box pleat kilt. I do know what that is.

Perhaps Paul could explain what a double knife pleat is.

[Paul Henry]

Ted, sorry I didn't get back to explain sooner, the double knife pleat is simply two knife pleats laid on top of each other, then the normal pleat spacing, then a further 2 knife pleats on top of each other, and so on.Above the fell line it just looks like a normal kilt.So in my kilt ther are about 36 sewn knife pleats, but they are grouped in pairs making 18 actual "pleats". This means that there is a lot a fabric to move and swish below the fell line,much as I imagine the fabric in a double box kilt works as well.

Re. the ironing, not much of a problem, all the edges of the pleats are sewn so they hold together very well, if I holdthe bottom edge firmly the pleats do seem to lie flat and then it's easy to press them.

I've made many kilts, this one was a bit of an experiment to see if I could get more swish from a non wool fabric, and it worked very well, the only thing is it's a lot of extra work.

[dfmacliam]

Very nice work... I know you probably hear that enough... and its good to see the experimentation in the finished form... Thank you for sharing your talents with all of us...