Plaid vs. Gingham — What's the Difference?

Short for Plaid Cymru

Gingham is a medium-weight balanced plain-woven fabric typically with striped, check or plaid patterns in white and a bright color made from dyed cotton or cotton-blend yarns. It is made of carded, medium or fine yarns.

Cloth, often made of wool, with a tartan or checked pattern.

Lightweight plain-woven cotton cloth, typically checked in white and a bold colour

A pattern of this kind.

A yarn-dyed cotton or cotton blend fabric usually woven in checks, plaids, or stripes.

A rectangular woolen scarf of a tartan pattern worn over the left shoulder by Scottish Highlanders.

(uncountable) A cotton fabric made from dyed and white yarn woven in checks.

(textiles) A type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern.

(countable) A dress made from that material.

A length of such material used as a piece of clothing, formerly worn in the Scottish Highlands and other parts of northern Britain and remaining as an item of ceremonial dress worn by members of Scottish pipe bands.

A kind of cotton or linen cloth, usually in stripes or checks, the yarn of which is dyed before it is woven; - distinguished from printed cotton or prints.

The typical chequered pattern of a plaid; tartan.

A clothing fabric in a plaid weave

Having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scottish tartan; checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one another.

(archaic) play

A rectangular garment or piece of cloth, usually made of the checkered material called tartan, but sometimes of plain gray, or gray with black stripes. It is worn by both sexes in Scotland.

Goods of any quality or material of the pattern of a plaid or tartan; a checkered cloth or pattern.

Having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scotch plaid; checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one another; as, plaid muslin.

A cloth having a crisscross design