Help!
Today someone aske me about "the Falkirk tartan".
After some googling I found that the cloth itself is fairly straight-forward (a 2/2 broken-reversed twill, broken after 8 ends; 8/8 ends/picks in two colours), but several webpages use the same sentence to describe it:
" Although small, it is of a type known as weft-woven (or dog-tooth) check in woollen fabric. It has a simple check design of natural light and dark wool."
So, please: has anybody heard of "weft-woven"? (I think I know abour dog-tooth, exccept I think that is about a colour-and-weave pattern, a 2/2 straight twill with a 4/4 colour distribution)
Here is a pic of the original Falkirk tartan: (pic comes from the National museum of Scotland)
"... known as weft-woven..." ???
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