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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 ]
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.
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]
Split check – MacGregor red-and-green with a wide green band split into three to form a "square of squares", then laced with a white over-check. Superimposed check – Ruthven , a red ground with a big green stripe "inside" a bigger blue one, then white and green over-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.
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 .
George Adams had started running public "sweeps" from his property, Tattersall's Hotel, Pitt St., Sydney (home of the Sydney Tattersall Club), in 1881. He moved to Hobart in 1896, after "Tattersall's Consultations" had been forced out of NSW in 1893, and facing a similar fate in QLD (Telegraph Chambers, Queen St., Brisbane) during 1895.
It is also known as hounds tooth check, hound's tooth (and similar spellings), dogstooth, dogtooth or dog's tooth. The duotone pattern is characterized by a tessellation of light and dark solid checks alternating with light-and-dark diagonally-striped checks—similar in pattern to gingham plaid but with diagonally-striped squares in place of ...