tartans
Kilt cloth patterns
Tartans are woven fabrics featuring a distinctive crisscross pattern of colored stripes at right angles, traditionally associated with Scottish Highland clans.
Each clan historically claimed its own tartan pattern, making the fabric a marker of family identity and heritage.
The word also refers to the patterns themselves, which now appear on everything from kilts to scarves to punk fashion.
She wrapped herself in the family tartan.
Woven crisscross pattern
- kiltWrapped Highland garment
- woolSheared animal fiber
- clanRelated group sharing ancestry
- weaveInterlace strands into fabric
Scottish · Highland · twill · warp · weft · loom · fabric · checkered
Related group sharing ancestry
- ScottishOf that northern kingdom
- HighlandScottish upland region
- CelticOf Irish-Welsh descent
- GaelicCeltic linguistic tradition
family · lineage · heraldry · registry · Braveheart · Highland games · Burns Night · ceilidh
plaid
Woven crisscross pattern
weave · Scottish · Highland · twill · warp · weft · loom · fabric · checkered · sett
clan
Related group sharing ancestry
Gaelic · family · lineage · heraldry · registry · Braveheart · Highland games · Burns Night · ceilidh · diaspora
- Celtic CultureCelts, Celtic cross, Celtic knots, Celtic knot, Celtic music
- Scottish heritageScottish clans, highland clans, Campbell, MacDonald, Stewart
- ScotlandGlasgow, Edinburgh, Highlands, whisky, bagpipes
- clan traditionstradition, burial rites, initiation, elders, chief
- Scottish HighlandsBen Nevis, Loch Ness, Loch Lomond, Inverness, Glencoe
- Celtic heritageCelts, Celtic languages, Celtic mythology, Celtic art, druids
tartansbatiks
Wax-resist dyed fabrics
kente cloth · madras · paisley · houndstooth · gingham
- tartan kiltsPleated Scottish plaid garments
- tartan patternsCrisscrossed Scottish textile designs
- clan tartansDistinctive Scottish family patterns
- tartan scarfCheckered fabric neckpiece
- Scottish tartanPatterned cloth of clans
- tartan blanketPatterned Scottish wool covering