This is a manual (not fabricated) pinned table skirting that we teach at our hospitality college - could you help identify by what correct name this pleating should be called? I am referring to the vertical falling pleats NOT the petal like indentations atop the individual pleats
(https://i.postimg.cc/k6yGsmND/skirting.png) (https://postimg.cc/k6yGsmND)
(https://i.postimg.cc/qzqqsWNM/table-skirting-single-pleats.png) (https://postimg.cc/qzqqsWNM)
Also here
https://i.ibb.co/VLQ4dr0/skirting.png
It's similar to an inverted pleat:
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/freeman3122/inverted-pleat-curtains/
Thanks Gerry
Could these or are these ever referred to as (an array of) accordion pleats?
They're not accordion pleats. Those would be triangular. You have a 'flat' between each pleat, which is no different than inverted box pleats, only without the crisp, pressed edges.
https://byhandlondon.com/blogs/by-hand-london/26070276-the-world-of-pleats-explained
I believe they are called "cartridge pleats"...
Cartridge pleats do look very like the thing, although there is still a gap between each pleat in these table setting pleats.
also called Gauging:
https://historicalsewing.com/how-to-sew-cartridge-pleats
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Well done Hendrick, looks like we have a winner:
https://www.sew-helpful.com/curtain-lined-cartridge-pleat-index.php
The name makes total sense: nothing square/boxy about those pleats, and they do resemble shotgun cartridges. OK, a bit of a gap between each pleat, but it's a 'variation'? Plus the gapping is more prevalent at the top (pleats become more cartridge-like down the drape).
They are a variation of cartridge pleating?
Cartridge pleating is usually more evenly spaced and these have overly large spaces in between the « pleats »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaGTBSfpbmY
??? Is this what we are talking about? Is this used just once? How do you clean it after use?
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I remember a couture skirt by, I believe it was, Cardin with this kind of pleat. It looked like fluttering bookpages, very beautiful...