Tartan of the month - October: What do yo see?

[figheadair]

That left edge looks ready to join to its mirror. This would have done just like last month's example but maybe it was never done. Maybe it was and this one has bee taken apart. Either that or that left edge by the 'monogram' is expertly hemmed.

That's correct. What you mean is that the pattern is off-set with the (as viewed) left selvedge finishing in the middle of the red pivot which would allow the sett to repeat correctly if two sections were joined along that edge.

Is the momogrammed hemmed? Look at the #1 image and it will tell you the answer.

Looks like a pale Blue beside the red stripe actually. That's 6 colours then.

Correct.

[CopperNGold]

I have no experience in this at all, but I wonder if it may be the kiltmaker's (even a mother or relative) signature, or as a completely other idea, the symbol of the joining of two families, clans, etc. The light and the dark in the embroidery may combine two of something. Just guessing here. The needlework doesn't seem precise to me.

The holes look like a like a repair, but why are there so many of them? Would the pinning of the apron be so repeatedlyprecise as to make a row of repeated holes? Hmmm.

Cheers, Jocelyn

[xman]

Is the momogrammed hemmed? Look at the #1 image and it will tell you the answer.

To me it looks like a true selvedge with an offset pattern.

[Jack Daw]

Lots of what looks like pinholes. Is it a woman's article?

[figheadair]

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Lots of what looks like pinholes. Is it a woman's article?

Good deduction. Well done.

[figheadair]

To me it looks like a true selvedge with an offset pattern.

Quite correct on both counts.

[figheadair]

There's a question that's not been asked that would help solve the puzzle.

[Nick the DSM]

There's a question that's not been asked that would help solve the puzzle.

"What is it?", is that the question?

[Harold Cannon]

Is it a womans arisaid?

[Nick the DSM]

Is it a womans arisaid?

Either that or maybe a shawl(sp)?

The initial makes it a personal item, so it couldn't have been someone's curtains.