DescriptionBlack Watch with herringbone bottom selvedge mark.png
English: This is an image of a tartan selvedge mark, in herringbone, as used at the bottom of a kilt. The design used is Black Watch tartan, and the selvedge-mark style is one consistent with military kilts (civilian selvedge marks were sometimes more colourful). This type of tartan selvedge replaces or "comes after", as it were, the sett with a wide band of colour (in this case black) already used in the set, and optionally finishes (as this example does) with a contrasting thin line of other colour also used already in the sett (blue in this case), and was sometimes done in herringbone weave (as shown in this example). It was very common for belted plaids and later small kilts of the original Highland regiments to have selvedge marks of this sort, as shown in a few surviving cloth samples and many portraits, but they were not consistent from unit to unit or time period to time period, seemingly left to the whims of the weaver.
This image is full-sett, with the selvedge mark added. The image can tile horizontally, but cannot tile vertically.
Date
2023-07-03, based on design from c. 1749
Source
Own work, from design at the Scottish Register of Tartans, earlier from the 1819 Key Pattern Book of William Wilson & Son of Bannockburn, and dating back into the mid-18th century.
Author
SMcCandlish, using the old Windows software Textile32, and Gimp.
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