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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.
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
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
In the modern era, Scottish Highland dress can be worn casually, or worn as formal wear to white tie and black tie occasions, especially at ceilidhs and weddings. Just as the black tie dress code has increased in use in England for formal events which historically may have called for white tie, so too is the black tie version of Highland dress increasingly common.
Sillitoe tartan, the chequered pattern (dicing, not actually a tartan) used often on police vehicles and headgear; Tartan Army, fans of Scotland's national football team; Tartan Films, a US and UK film-distribution company; Tartan Laboratories, an American software company later known as Tartan, Inc. Tartan Marine, a boat building company
A tartan called Ensign of Ontario, designed in 1965 by Rotex Ltd, [30] was unofficially used as Ontario's tartan for 35 years. In 2000, MPP for Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound Bill Murdoch introduced the Tartan Act, [ 31 ] to adopt a new tartan designed by Jim MacNeil, Chairman of Scottish Studies at Ontario's University at Guelph.
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The plaid was never in use among the Borderers, i.e. the Highland or tartan plaid; but there was, and is still used, a plaid with a very small cheque of black and grey, which we call a maud, and which, I believe, was very ancient; it is the constant dress of the shepherd, worn over one shoulder, and then drawn round the person, leaving one arm ...