{"id":361,"date":"2016-01-24T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/24\/whats-in-a-name-plaid-versus-tartan-2\/"},"modified":"2016-01-24T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T17:24:00","slug":"whats-in-a-name-plaid-versus-tartan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/whats-in-a-name-plaid-versus-tartan-2.html","title":{"rendered":"What’s in a Name? Plaid versus Tartan"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\nMad for Plaid<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nI recently read an article written by Leanne Italie for the
\nAssociated Press entitled \u201cFor the Love of Plaid\u201d.  In her article, Italie describes the focusing of this pattern not
\nonly for apparel and footwear, but also as a newly emerging design trend for
\nhome furnishings.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nThis has led me to address several questions I had received
\nregarding the distinction between the designation \u201cplaid\u201d and \u201ctartan\u201d,
\nfollowing my blog \u201cTartan, Plaid By Any Other Name\u201d, Mar, 15 2015.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nSo I have gathered my dictionary and textile encyclopedias
\nin an effort to resolve this issue.  The
\nresults were not at all definitive.  <\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n1.  Webster\u2019s New
\nWorld Dictionary:    Plaid: (gallic
\nplaide) : a long piece of twilled woolen cloth with a checkered or crossbar
\npattern worn over the shoulder by Scottish highlanders.                                                                                           Tartan: a woolen cloth with a woven pattern of straightlines with
\ndifferent colors and widths crossing at right angles, worn in the Scottish
\nhighlands.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n2. Callaway Textile Dictionary:   Plaid: a pattern consisting of colored stripes or bars crossing
\neach other at right angles, similar to a Scottish  tartan.<\/div>\n
\n                                                       Tartan;  a kind of woolen cloth with a 2\/2 twill in
\nchecks of various colors, worn chiefly by Scottish highlanders.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n3. Encyclopedia of Textiles, Judith Jerde :  Plaid: 
\nthe word plaid is used to describe a particular pattern, but in
\nactuality it does not refer to a pattern at all but rather, to a type of
\nhighland Scottish dress.<\/div>\n
\n                                                                 
\nTartan : a plaid fabric that originated in the Scottish highlands,
\nderived from the Gaelic \u201ctarstin ot tarsiun\u201d meaning across, describing the
\ncross stripe pattern.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n4. Textile Designs, Meller and Elffers: Plaid: a box layout
\nof stripes, usually horizontal and vertical and almost always crossing at right
\nangles.  This reference was certainly
\nthe most thorough as there were entries for many varieties of plaid, including
\nprinted fabrics of various fibers, different colorways including black and
\nwhite printed fabrics and plaid prints used for men\u2019s shirtings.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nOne final definition that appeared was the definition of the
\nword \u201dcheck\u201d.  It seems the check
\npattern is applied to similar plaid patterns of fewer colors on a smaller scale.  Meller says\u201d squared off, a plaid becomes a
\ncheck\u201d.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nMy opinion, and I\u2019m sticking to this, is that the word
\n\u201ctartan\u2019 can be correctly applied to woven, woolen cloth of various colorways
\nin a pattern of intersecting stripes of varying widths.  And we musn\u2019t forget about those Scottish
\nhighlanders.  \u201cPlaid\u201d, in our times, is
\nused to refer to the pattern crated by the stripes and can be woven or printed
\nfabric of various fiber content.  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mad for Plaid I recently read an article written by Leanne Italie for the Associated Press entitled \u201cFor the Love of Plaid\u201d.  In her article, Italie describes the focusing of this pattern not only for apparel and footwear, but also as a newly emerging design trend for home furnishings. This has led me to address…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}