Category:Blanket and arisaid tartans

These are tartan patterns (setts) used for historical blankets; in most cases they are white-based and believed to be derived from the patterns originally used for the arisaid (Scottish Gaelic: earasaid), the female equivalent of the belted plaid, in the 16th to early 18th centuries. However, no actual arisaids survive from that period, so the use of the blanket tartans (or something very similar to them) for those garments is somewhat speculative, and based on period textual descriptions. The historical blanket setts are from the 18th to 19th centuries. A few blanket tartans do not have a white ground and are thus not associated with arisaids.

The subcategory "Post-Victorian arisaid tartans" is for more recent tartan designs in the same general (white-based) style, inspired by the surviving historical examples (but not clan dress/dance tartans).