Scottish traditional material box

Plaid shirt is a classic combination of tradition and fashion, and it is an important decoration. Give people a refreshing impression, and let the shirt render your independent temperament. Dressing gives people a refreshing and pleasant feeling. Women of any age can wear the most versatile clothes. Plaid shirt is undoubtedly a necessity in the whole plaid trend, because it is casual, versatile, intimate and warm.

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Some people try to prove that plaid fabrics originated from ancient Celts and Tuholos in Xinjiang 3,000 years ago, but obviously, the Scottish national costumes formed after16th century are indeed related to modern aesthetics.

The plaid on the clothes is inseparable from the textile technology at that time. The warp and weft on the fabric constitute the basic lines of the grid, and the wool dyed with natural dyes is interwoven to form a square grid pattern. With the passage of time, in addition to regular chessboard patterns, Scots also expanded the pattern style by adjusting the latitude and longitude distance and color matching between different colors. This weave is called tartan, which was later translated directly into "(Scottish) tartan".

Because the plaid weaving method will present a new color at every part where two colors are mixed, the sum of mixed colors and the number of primary colors in multi-color fabrics will conform to the following formula:

warp and weft

The basic pattern of plaid weaving

For example, if four primary colors are used, the fabric will appear in six colors. The fabric obtained by this weaving method has the special effects of generosity, conciseness, neatness and beauty.

It should be pointed out that tartan was originally a cloth from the Scottish highlands, and it has little to do with the Scottish lowlands.