Laird's/Day Plaid

[Jock Scot]

McNulty.

Thank you so much for your kind invitation and you never know I may take you up on that.Likewise if ever you are this way of the world, perhaps we could arrange something? How do you get on with a 15ft fly rod?I would not recommend fishing here in the kilt, the midgies would eat you alive! Great pictures by the way, my casting wrist was beginning to twitch!

[Nanook]

I may try something like this again if my Inverness Cape was missing and all I had was a tartan blanket.

I sometimes combine my cape, as tradition, with a tweed day plaid (neither worsted tartan nor pleats but stout, lanolin "oily" heavyweight tweed). I reserve my worsted tartan full and half belted plaids for "special occasions". Since I have a 150cm square of Noble spun wool government 1A (as was) looking for a use I might one day fashion it into a heavier and more functional "fly plaid" for something in-between.

[FreakPower70]

adding to gilmores post, when buddhism began in india the dzin is all that monks wore. Of course they wore it in a very practical way so as not to be revealing. In tibet the shirt and bottom skirt were added because of the cold climate. But in some other buddhist countries minks still just have the strip of cloth.

[gilmore]

adding to gilmores post, when buddhism began in india the dzin is all that monks wore. Of course they wore it in a very practical way so as not to be revealing. In tibet the shirt and bottom skirt were added because of the cold climate. But in some other buddhist countries minks still just have the strip of cloth.

Originally in India the monks wore two robes, both made of cloth taken from bodies in charnel grounds, sewn into patchwork rectangles that were said to resemble a map of rice paddies, and then dyed, some say with saffron, other say with tumeric.

The lower, skirt-like robe came to be known as a shang-tab in Tibet, and the the upper rectangular one is called the cho gu, or dharma robe. The latter is some shade of yellow and is worn only at formal teachings and some ceremonies.

The dzin is not necessarily a monk's robe, since some lay yogis (naljor) called ngagpas also wear it. The yellow chu gu, when it is worn, is worn over the dzin. In fact it is said that the purpose of wearing the dzin at such times is to protect the cho gu from the body's uncleanliness. There is a second patchwork rectangular yellow robe called a nang chu that is used only by fully ordained monks at twice-monthly ceremonies. For much of the ceremony it is folded into a narrow strip and and carried over the left shoulder, exactly as a Scottish day plaid is; however, the nang cho is worn over the cho gu, which is itself worn over the dzin, which is worn over the shirt, or tongag, which is worn over a undershirt-like thing called a ngulen. Even though it rests on 4 layers of cloth, 2 of which are robes loosely wrapped around the left shoulder and torso, the cho gu almost never falls of. Therefore, I suspect that if a day plaid was folded into a narrow width that did not extend beyond the shoulder, it would be less cumbersome, and that its own weight would hold it in place.

In India the monks carried a piece of cloth to sit on. It was square with two points at each of the 4 corners, "the fangs of death." It was this that the monks fashioned into a shirt, the tongag, after they came to the colder climates of Tibet.