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  2. Tartan - Wikipedia

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    Outside of Scotland, tartan is sometimes also known as "plaid" (particularly in North America); however, in Scotland, a plaid is a large piece of tartan cloth which can be worn several ways. Traditional tartan is made with alternating bands of coloured (pre-dyed) threads woven in usually matching warp and weft in a simple 2/2 twill pattern. Up ...

  3. Madras (cloth) - Wikipedia

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    Madras today is available as plaid patterns in regular cotton, seersucker, and as patchwork madras, meaning cutting several madras fabrics into squares or rectangles and sewing them back together to form a mixed pattern of various plaids. [citation needed]

  4. Plaid - Wikipedia

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    A synonym for tartan cloth, primarily in North American English; Full plaid, a cloth blanket or mantle, made with a tartan or checked pattern, wrapped around the waist, cast over the shoulder and fastened at the front; Fly plaid, a smaller tartan-cloth mantle, worn pinned to the left shoulder

  5. Highland dress - Wikipedia

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    In the modern era, Scottish Highland dress can be worn casually, or worn as formal wear to white tie and black tie occasions, especially at ceilidhs and weddings. Just as the black tie dress code has increased in use in England for formal events which historically may have called for white tie, so too is the black tie version of Highland dress increasingly common.

  6. Tartan found in the Scottish Highlands might be the world's ...

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    A piece of fabric discovered in a bog in the Scottish Highlands might be the oldest traditional tartan ever found, new research suggests.. The piece of material could be up to 500 years old ...

  7. List of tartans - Wikipedia

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    The regimental version of this tartan differs somewhat from the clan version. Another tartan was created in 2018 (approved in 2020) in honour of the Royal Logistic Corps, [6] but it is for civilian use and is a fundraiser for the RLC's MoD Benevolent fund; it is not used for regimental uniform. [7] 18 Red Robertson: 19 Hunting Fraser: 22

  8. Tartan (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Sillitoe tartan, the chequered pattern (dicing, not actually a tartan) used often on police vehicles and headgear; Tartan Army, fans of Scotland's national football team; Tartan Films, a US and UK film-distribution company; Tartan Laboratories, an American software company later known as Tartan, Inc. Tartan Marine, a boat building company

  9. Linsey-woolsey - Wikipedia

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    These names were anglicised as "turtein" or "tartan" (not to be confused with tartan patterns). [4] Hemp would also have been used together with the linen in warp yarns at this time. The coarse fabric called stuff woven at Kidderminster from the 17th century, originally a wool fabric, may have been of linsey-woolsey construction later on.