The Tartans

An Brythen Kernow - Cornwall's Tartan

AN BRYTHEN KERNOW - CORNWALL'S TARTAN
CORNWALL''S TARTANS

THE TECHNICAL SIDE OF MAKING TARTAN
Woollen cloth is woven on a loom 56" wide, on each side of the woven cloth is an edge called a selvage, the line of cloth between the two selvages is called the woof of cloth or the weft, the threads that run length wise across the woof is called the warp.

Tartan has it''s regular pattern because of what is known as the Logan scale.

The Logan scale says the web of the tartan is from 24" to 26" in width: 12 threads being reckoned to 1/8", and the figures denote 1/8", or parts of 1/8th." the length only of the pattern is given - commencing from the selvage - as the pattern is the same, whether warp or woof.