8 yards: when, and why?

[Tattoo Bradley]

No, I'm not looking for a box-pleat kilt.
It is just that I have never seen any such kilts advertized by Scottish kiltmakers/suppliers, and wondered if they were regarded as traditionally Scottish in the homeland.

Thanks for your reply.

Martin

Here you go. Very informative.

http://kilts.albanach.org/yardage.html

[Semiomniscient]

Do any of the Scottish kilt-makers provide box pleats?
Or 4-yard kilts?

Martin

I assume so. But I'm curious as to why it really matters. The evidence for 4-yard box pleated kilts being more traditional than "8" yard knife-pleated kilts is plain as day.

[ForresterModern]

I measured about 8 of my kilts compared to their ordered length and actually posted it somewhere on a thread but cannot remember exactly where, a couple months ago. Some vendors were very efficient with their use of the alotted material (using 7.3 yards or more of material for an "8" yard kilt) while others were far less efficient (using 4.1 yards of material for a "6" yard kilt). I know that some of it is dependent on sett size and pleating choice, which may cause some limitations with shorter material length kilts but should not be as much of a problem with the 8 or 9 yard kilts.

I will have to look for my old post, or repost it if I can find my original data sheet (I weighed each kilt, measured sett sizes and number of repeats, overall length of material used including overlaps for fringe edges, etc.., number of pleats, and depth of each pleat).

Jeff

[ForresterModern]

Found my original thread about the 8 kilts I measured and weighed:

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/w...x.html?t=47233

My one 9 yard kilt used 8.3 yards of material, all of my 8 yard kilts used between 7 and 7.44 yards of material, and my one 6 yard kilt use just over 4 yards of material. That is the long and the short of it, pardon the pun.

jeff