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Tattersall is a style of tartan pattern woven into cloth. The pattern is composed of regularly-spaced thin, even vertical warp stripes, repeated horizontally in the weft , thereby forming squares. The stripes are usually in two alternating colours, generally darker on a light ground. [ 1 ]
George Tattersall (1817–1849), a son of the second Richard Tattersall, who was a well-known sporting artist. [2] Tattersall, a type of cloth named after the business, [5] used commonly in modern shirts. During the 18th century at Tattersall's horse market blankets with this checked pattern were sold for use on horses. [6]
The English and Scots word tartan is possibly derived from French tiretaine meaning 'linsey-woolsey cloth'. [1] [2] [3] Other hypotheses are that it derives from Scottish Gaelic tarsainn or tarsuinn, meaning 'across' or 'crossing over'; [2] [3] or from French tartarin or tartaryn (occurring in 1454 spelled tartyn) [4] meaning 'Tartar cloth'. [1]
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.
Jonathan Tattersall (born 1994), English cricketer; Kathleen Tattersall (1942–2013), British educationalist; Mark Tattersall (born c. 1984), British journalist; Philippa Tattersall (born 1975), Royal Marine officer; Richard Tattersall (1724–1795), founder of racehorse auctioneer Tattersalls; Roy Tattersall (1922–2011), English cricketer ...
Gingham cloth with green and white checks. Gingham, also called Vichy check, is a medium-weight balanced plain-woven fabric typically with tartan (plaid), striped, or check duotone patterns, in bright colour and in white made from dyed cotton or cotton-blend yarns.
An example of bunting in Wilmette, Illinois Bunting in the form of triangular flags in the West Midlands, United Kingdom. Bunting refers to decorative flags, wide streamers, or draperies made of fabric, or of plastic, paper or cardboard in imitation of fabric. Bunting is also a collection of flags, and the fabric used to make flags.
Ian Tattersall (born 1945) is a British-born American paleoanthropologist and a curator emeritus with the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, New York. In addition to human evolution , Tattersall has worked extensively with lemurs .