Interesting pleating on my first 5 yarder

[NorCalPiper]

Hey Y'all-
Our kilt maker just finished a personal kilt for me. It is a 16OZ 5 yard kilt in the Clan Brown tartan. This is not my favorite tartan (Even though I am a Brown), but as things work out in this biz, got a chance at the material, and I went ahead with it. I wanted it pleated at least to the blue stripe, but that just wasn't going to be possible (Thank GOD for TAoKM). Knowing my wanting something different and interesting, the pleating scheme was done differently. Almost making a new tartan (I just DID NOT want it to sett, however, the pleating scheme makes a whole different sett of which I love...Go figure). That being said, I really love my new kilt, and its perfect as a comfortable casual style kilt. Anyway, check out the pleating scheme. I'm sure the purist will BLEH, but I like it. Sorry about the pleating maybe looking sloppy, I had no one to take my pic, so I laid it on the table and the pleats din not all line up when i did. They are all really perfect though.

[Arizona Scot]

Very interesting, don't really care what others think if you like it thats all that matters. More power to ya.

[SFCRick]

looks good to me

[M. A. C. Newsome]

The issue with pleating to the stripe in a small yardage kilt like this one is that you will end up with rather wide pleats. Now, if you are making a box pleated kilt, that's great because wide pleats look just fine in a box pleat. In fact, you don't want them to be too narrow, because that will just mean the pleats themsleves are more shallow and won't want to hang right.

But in a knife pleated kilt, pleats that are too wide just don't look right. Most kilt making companies, when making a "casual kilt" using four or five yards of cloth, will want to give you more narrow pleats, as opposed to fewer wide pleats, to make the "casual" kilt look as much like a typical traditional kilt as possible.

What this means is that you will end up with more than one pleat per sett repeat. What they typically try to do then is to come up with a pattern that gives the effect of pleating to the sett, but doesn't actually recreate the sett. That's what you see here.

Grand looking kilt. Is it House of Edgar cloth? They are the only ones I know off the top of my head that do Brown in a 16oz.

[KFCarter]

I like it... it is different... but looks great to me. Congratulations.

[RockyR]

Dito what Matt said. Kelly and I call it 'Cheating the Sett' when we make 5 yarders and can't go to the full sett or to the stripe. In most cases it's the sett size, - 1" or so. As noted here, it makes up a different 'new' pattern. For most tartans, it can look prety neat!

[Santa Kona]

It is different I am always one who likes different.

[McFarkus]

I think it looks great! And I like the original tartan too!