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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 ...
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]
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
Glen plaid (short for Glen Urquhart plaid), also known as Glenurquhart check or Prince of Wales check, is a woollen fabric with a woven twill design of small and large checks. [1] It is usually made of black/grey and white, or with more muted colours, particularly with two dark and two light stripes alternating with four dark and four light ...
A full plaid, or just a plaid, is a long piece of tartan fabric, most often worn as part of a Highland dress. It usually matches the tartan of the kilt. A modern full plaid is pleated the whole way, with half of its length sewn shut (so that the pleats cannot open). Its length is about twice the distance from the ground to the wearer's shoulder.
Check (also checker, Brit: chequer, or dicing) is a pattern of modified stripes consisting of crossed horizontal and vertical lines which form squares.The pattern typically contains two colours where a single checker (that is a single square within the check pattern) is surrounded on all four sides by a checker of a different colour.
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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