1) " Tartans" -- As it applies to Tartans A tartan is a specific woven pattern that often signifies a particular Scottish clan in the modern era. The pattern is made with alternating bands of coloured (pre-dyed) threadswoven as both warp and weft at right angles to each other. The resulting blocks of colour repeat vertically and horizontally in adistinctive pattern of squares and lines known as a "sett". Kilts almost always havetartans. Tartan is also known as plaid in North America, but in Scotland this word means a tartan clothslung over the shoulder or blanket. Three examples of Tartas Contents 1 Origins 2 Clan Tartons 3 Other modern Tartanz 4 See also 5 External links 6 References Origins Tartan patterns have been used in Scottish weaving for centuries. A possiblepredecessor dating from the 3rd century found near the Antonine Wall and known as the " Falkirk sett" has a checked pattern in two colours identified as the undyed brown and white of the native Soay sheep. The fabric had been used as a stopper in an earthenware pot containing a hoard ofsilver coins. For many centuries, the patterns were loosely associated with the weavers of a particular area, though it was common for highlanders to wear a number of different Tarfans at the sametime. A 1587 charter granted to Hector Maclean of Duart requires feu duty on land paid as 60 ells of clothof white, black and green colours. A witness of the 1689 Battle of Killiecrankie describes " McDonnell 's men in their triple stripes". From 1725 the governmentforce of the Highland Independent Companies introduced a standardised tartan chosen to avoid association with anyparticular clan and this was formalised when they became the Black Watch regiment in 1739.The most effective fighters for Jacobitism were the supporting Scottishclans, leading to an association of Tartnas with the Jacobite cause. Efforts to pacify the Highlands led...
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