What do the different Scottish tartan patterns represent?

What do the different Scottish tartan patterns represent?

Today, the colours identify religion as red and green tartans represent Catholics and the blue represents Protestants. The divide is important in Scotland as one can identify people’s religion by what colour tartan is worn.

What are the Scottish tartans?

Tartan is particularly associated with Scotland. Scottish kilts almost always have tartan patterns. Tartan is often called plaid in North America, but in Scotland, a plaid is a tartan clothslung over the shoulder as a kilt accessory, or a plain ordinary blanket such as one would have on a bed.

How to make tartan with knitting?

You should be comfortable casting on and casting off,as well as knitting in garter stitch.

  • How to knit with two strands of yarn together.
  • You can see a tutorial on weaving the plaid here.
  • You can see a tutorial on how to make the tassels here.
  • You should also be comfortable reading knitting patterns.
  • And understanding knitting abbreviations and terms.

    • What is the difference between tartan and Plaid?

    Of the two fabrics,tartan represents the Scottish clan.

  • In tartan,the coloured yarns are laced with alternating streaks.
  • Plaid resembles English fabric that comes with a related design of vertical and horizontal streaks,which are dyed or laced into the fabric.
  • Tartan has a geometric pattern.

    • What is called ‘Tartan pattern’?

    The pattern of a tartan is called a sett. The sett is made up of a series of woven threads which cross at right angles. Today tartan is generally used to describe the pattern, not limited to textiles. In North America the term plaid is commonly used to describe tartan.

    How to paint tartan patterns on miniatures?

    Step 1: Be really good at painting straight lines. I have about a 50% success rate painting straight even lines on a mini. Given the number of lines needed to do this tartan my chance of success without a screw-up needs scientific notation to express as anything other then 0%. Brilliant, makes it look easy.