09-15-2011, 01:19 PM
The original Falkirk (or something close)is listed in "The Scottish Register of Tartans" also known as "Shepards Check"
http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanD...x?ref=3781
I do not believe you can make a true checkerboard board pattern by weaving but only by printing its stands to reason that a cloth woven in two coloured threads in bands vertically and horizontally will produce three different variations, two solid colours and a mix of both repeated, the Falkirk "Tartan" is exactly this and is also a 2/2 twill, a small percentage of cloth at Vindolanda took this form again with the majority being 2/2 twill but woven as a more complex diamond pattern...
Note: the small size of the falkirk pattern approx 18mm squares(estimated) original dimesion 110x70mm
Examples of both types of weaving are known to me from keltic burials in East Yorkshire as mineral replaced textiles (so no colour) from the 3rd BC(and probarbly later but pre-roman) but could likely find others elsewhere without too much difficulty... see "Iron Age Cemeteries in East Yorkshire: Excavations at Burton Fleming, Rudston, Garton-on-the-Wold and Kirkburn" page 124-5 gives a summary of samples found.
heres the NMS record doesnt say much...
http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.p...-036-743-C
The find was 400 metres north of the Antonine Wall so was probarbly native rather then roman.
http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanD...x?ref=3781
I do not believe you can make a true checkerboard board pattern by weaving but only by printing its stands to reason that a cloth woven in two coloured threads in bands vertically and horizontally will produce three different variations, two solid colours and a mix of both repeated, the Falkirk "Tartan" is exactly this and is also a 2/2 twill, a small percentage of cloth at Vindolanda took this form again with the majority being 2/2 twill but woven as a more complex diamond pattern...
Note: the small size of the falkirk pattern approx 18mm squares(estimated) original dimesion 110x70mm
Examples of both types of weaving are known to me from keltic burials in East Yorkshire as mineral replaced textiles (so no colour) from the 3rd BC(and probarbly later but pre-roman) but could likely find others elsewhere without too much difficulty... see "Iron Age Cemeteries in East Yorkshire: Excavations at Burton Fleming, Rudston, Garton-on-the-Wold and Kirkburn" page 124-5 gives a summary of samples found.
heres the NMS record doesnt say much...
http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.p...-036-743-C
The find was 400 metres north of the Antonine Wall so was probarbly native rather then roman.
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
