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lumberjack plaid

2010-06-01
01 June
By napaneedle
On June 1, 2010
In Tartans
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What Is a Tartan?

Tartans, most properly, are symmetrical plaids usually associated with Scotland or Scottish items. In fact, to be a tartan the plaid must be registered in the Official Tartan Registry. There are tartans not only for clans (Scottish families), military units, bands, colleges and universities, companies, clubs, cities, states, and even countries. Most correctly, you wear the plaids associated with you. So if you lived in the Yukon and were Irish, you could wear both the Texas Bluebonnet plaid, and the Irish plaid. How are tartan plaids constructed? They are made from a particular sequence of stripes of various widths and colors woven in a regularRead More →

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