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Explore your Scottish connections with our Clan search, using your own surname, an ancestral name or via connected Scottish locations on the clan map. Once you have identified your clan, you can view the different tartans linked to your clan with our Tartan Finder.
Explore your Scottish connections with our Clan search, using your own surname, an ancestral name or via connected Scottish locations on the clan map. Once you have identified your clan, you can view the different tartans linked to your clan with our Tartan Finder.
The Scottish Register of Tartans (the Register) is a national repository of tartan designs. It is an on-line website database facility maintained by the National Records of Scotland, an...
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.
The Scottish Register of Tartans contains thousands of tartan designs, which are free for you to search and reference.
Known as plaid in the United States, the iconic Scottish pattern is equally popular around the world. Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts, Nat Geo Image Collection. By Karen Gardiner. March 29,...
What is a tartan? In many countries today, the pattern of interlocking stripes called a tartan is often mistakenly known as “plaid.” Plaide actually comes from the Gaelic word for a blanket, and is specifically used in the context of Highland dress to refer to a large length of material.
Plaid clothing and accessories for all the family. From traditional kilts to bomber jackets, all available in over 500 Scottish clan plaids.
Claymore Imports offers Scottish tartan fabric and accessories made at some of the oldest and most highly respected mills in Scotland. Choose your accessory or fabric, and find the pattern for your clan or county, or select tartan that reflects your personal style.
In Scotland, the word plaid is seldom used to mean a tartan-like fabric. Instead plaid refers mostly to various kinds of draped costume for both men and women. The main garments are: the belted plaid; the fly plaid; the arisaid plaid; the shepherd's plaid; the piper's plaid and; the drummer's plaid.