DescriptionEarasaid tartan reconstruction by Scarlett, centred, zoomed out.png
English: This is a Commons user's self-made approximation of a tartan textile. The design is ultimately from James D. Scarlett (1990) Tartan: The Highland Textile, p. 40 & plate 5(b). Scarlett did not provide the threadcount, just an image of woven cloth; this is a careful approximation of the pattern as shown in the image. Scarlett designed it to illustrate what 16th- to early 18th-century earasaid (arisaid) tartan patterns basically would have looked like, though the design is modernised in mirroring, in having matching warp and weft, and in lacking a decorative selvedge. The real earasaid patterns of the period, which are lost, are believed to have been considerably more complex, with multiple different groups of thin over-checks on white (judging from surviving examples of the thicker-lined but complicated "bar blanket" patterns that earasaid setts evolved into later). [Aside: for some simplified bar-blanket setts, see: [1].] This version of the image is not exactly full-sett, and is not tileable horizontally and vertically. It is a centred and slightly zoomed-out version, for comparison with other tartan images given the same treatment. Threadcount used (this is a typical mirroring tartan, and the thread-count is full-count at the pivots), in slash notation: /LSB4 W2 R12 W72 P6 W16 OG10 W16 R12 W2 P4/ or in bold notation: LSB4 W2 R12 W72 P6 W16 OG10 W16 R12 W2 P4 (where LSB = light sky blue, and OG = olive green).
This is technically a form of derivative work, but absent a trademark claim, textiles are not protected as intellectual property in US law, or the law of most other jurisdictions, as too simple for copyright protection. This is really no different from all the wordmarks and other logo images on Commons, other than the original designer clearly did not intend this as a logo but as an educational image. He did not even register it in any of the tartan databases like that of the Scottish Tartans Society which was definitely operating at the time of his publication.
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full-sett, tileable
centred and zoomed out a lot more
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