Plaid

Plaid may refer to:

Material

  • Plaid is a cloth made with a tartan pattern wrapped around the waist and cast over the shoulder and fastened at the front. The meaning of the Gaelic word plaid is "blanket".
  • A plaid shirt, typically of flannel worn during the winter.
  • The belted plaid or "great kilt", earlier form of the kilt.
  • Plaid is used as a synonym for tartan in North America.
  • Others

  • Tartan: "plaid" is the North American term for this textile pattern.
  • Plaid (band), a British electronic music duo, taking their name from the Welsh word for party
  • Plaid (album), an album by guitarist Blues Saraceno
  • Plaid Cymru, the largest political party advocating independence for Wales
  • Plaid (programming language), a new general-purpose object-oriented computer programming language
  • Plaid, a fictional color in Vernor Vinge's novel A Deepness in the Sky
  • See also

  • Kilt
  • Flannel (material)
  • All pages with titles containing Plaid
  • Tartan

    Tartan is a pattern consisting of criss-crossed horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colours. Tartans originated in woven wool, but now they are made in many other materials. 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 cloth slung over the shoulder as a kilt accessory, or a plain ordinary blanket such as one would have on a bed.

    Tartan is made with alternating bands of coloured (pre-dyed) threads woven as both warp and weft at right angles to each other. The weft is woven in a simple twill, two over — two under the warp, advancing one thread at each pass. This forms visible diagonal lines where different colours cross, which give the appearance of new colours blended from the original ones. The resulting blocks of colour repeat vertically and horizontally in a distinctive pattern of squares and lines known as a sett.

    The Dress Act of 1746 attempted to bring the warrior clans under government control by banning the tartan and other aspects of Gaelic culture. When the law was repealed in 1782, it was no longer ordinary Highland dress, but was adopted instead as the symbolic national dress of Scotland.

    Plaid (album)

    Plaid is the second studio album by guitarist Blues Saraceno, released on February 28, 1992 through Guitar Recordings.

    Track listing

    All songs written and composed by Blues Saraceno, except where noted. 

    Personnel

  • Blues Saracenoguitar, bass, engineering, mixing, production
  • John Stix – slide guitar, mixing, production
  • Steve Blucher – lap steel guitar
  • Joe Franco – drums
  • Alex Saraceno – harmonica
  • Vic Steffens – engineering, mixing
  • Chris Brown – sequencing, digital editing
  • George Marino – mastering
  • References

    Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Wish I Could

    by: Jesus and Mary Chain

    sung by William
    written by William
    We were searching for a fire
    And we settled for a spark
    Sparks glow like stars in the dark
    Of course they do just like you
    And I wish that I could fall for you
    Yeah I wish that I could fall for you
    Yeah I wish that I could fall
    Well jesus walked
    On the water on the water
    We walk on dampness too
    Yes we do through and through
    If we had the time we'd take it
    If we had the mind we'd make it
    If we had the love
    We could leave this world behind
    Oh I wish that I could fall
    Yeah I wish that I could fall
    Yeah I wish that I could fall




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