Need assistance identifying this tartan.

[figheadair]

That probably isn't actually a tartan - here in England it would be termed a plaid - as the warp and weft are different. Some tartans are asymmetric but that fabric is a bit simple in its design. I am prepared to be proven wrong though it is very similar to many fabrics I've used over the years.

If it was available, though I'd probably be considering the best way to pleat it before you could say 'kilt' - or maybe 'overcoat' - or - for me long skirt cut on the bias with a yoke would be another possibility. It is probably a perfectly good fabric, just not conforming to the mainstream of tartans.

Anne the Pleater

Yes it's asymmetric but the warp and weft are the same. They look different because this a warp faced cloth in which the warp is more tightly woven resulting in the striped appearance.

[OC Richard]

I always like playing with designs, here's one way to turn that into an ordinary symmetric tartan.

[Pleater]

Yes it's asymmetric but the warp and weft are the same. They look different because this a warp faced cloth in which the warp is more tightly woven resulting in the striped appearance.

Ah I wasn't using the words in the skilled and technical sense of the craftsman weaver - just in the 'it doesn't look the same' way of a fabric user rather than maker.

So is the term tightly woven describing a warp under tension, or one with more threads to the inch? I do have a lamentably simple table loom used for making scarves for Dickensian and earlier costume, but it was just a money making ploy in hard times.

Anne the Pleater