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The earliest image of Scottish soldiers wearing tartan (belted plaids and trews); 1631 German engraving by Georg Köler.[a]Regimental tartans are tartan patterns used in military uniforms, possibly originally by some militias of Scottish clans, certainly later by some of the Independent Highland Companies (IHCs) raised by the British government, then by the Highland regiments and many Lowland ...
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
This regimental tartan is closely based on the most conventionalised of the MacDuff tartans (the main Wilsons of Bannockburn sett), but has a proportionally smaller green area. The overall pattern is basically the same as that of royal Stewart , but without the latter's yellow and white over-checks.
It is believed to be the sett used for the regiment's small kilts while they were still also using the belted plaid (great kilt) for dress uniform. (After abandonment of the belted plaid completely, c. 1814, the regiment used their belted-plaid Black Watch tartan for their small kilts.) The pattern is Black Watch with the black over-checks ...
Regimental tartan; Royal Stewart tartan; S. Sett (tartans) This page was last edited on 17 April 2020, at 09:20 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
This image is not exactly full-sett, and cannot tile horizontally and vertically; this centred and zoomed-out version was created for tabular comparison to other regimental tartans. Scottish Register of Tartans notes on this pattern: "Details from a Wilsons’ Mss book in the library of the Museum of Antiquaries, Edinburgh. where it is labelled ...
Tartan is both a mass noun ("12 metres of tartan") and a count noun ("12 different tartans"). Today, tartan refers to coloured patterns, though originally did not have to be made up of a pattern at all, as it referred to the type of weave; as late as the 1820s, some tartan cloth was described as "plain coloured ... without pattern".
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.