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noun - a cloth having a crisscross design
noun - a patterned woolen fabric
TARTANS - Tartan (Scottish Gaelic: breacan [bxkn]) is a pattern consisting of criss-crossed horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colours. Tartans originat...
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| Striped patterns |
| Family identifiers |
| Bagpipers' garb |
| Clan garb |
| Highlands patterns |
| Carnegie Mellon athletes |
| Highland plaids |
| Kilt patterns |
| Checked patterns |
| Highlands designs |
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| Part history, part fashion, "Battle of the Clans" tells of these patterns banned in the 18th century |
| In 1746 the English banned the Scots from wearing kilts or these plaid patterns except in the military |
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Tartan (Scottish Gaelic: breacan [bxkn]) is a pattern consisting of criss-crossed horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colours. Tartans originated in woven wool, but now they are made in many other materials. Tartan is particularly associated with Scotland. Scottish kilts almost always have tartan patterns. Tartan is often called plaid in North America, but in Scotland, a plaid is a tartan cloth slung over the shoulder as a kilt accessory, or a plain ordinary blanket such as one would have on a bed. * Tartan is made with alternating bands of coloured (pre-dyed) threads woven as both warp and weft at right angles to each other. The weft is woven in a simple twill, two overtwo under the warp, advancing one thread at each pass. This forms visible diagonal lines where different colours cross, which give the appearance of new colours blended from the original ones. The resulting blocks of colour repeat vertically and horizontally in a distinctive pattern of squares and lines known as a s |