Plate No. 041pattern
- First documented
- 1600s
- Origin
- Argyll, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Fiber
- wool, cotton
- Weave
- knitted intarsia or printed
- Family
- dots
Plate No. 041 · pattern
Argyle
Argyle is a pattern of solid diamonds in two or more alternating colors, crossed by thin diagonal raker lines that pass through the diamond centers. It descends from the tartan hose of the Scottish Highlands, where cutting tartan cloth on the bias for stockings turned the checks into diamonds. Knitted in intarsia, it became golf and country-club knitwear in the early twentieth century, fixed in place by Pringle of Scotland and the Duke of Windsor.
Named for
Named for Argyll in western Scotland, from the tartan of Clan Campbell of Argyll, whose sett the diamonds echo.
In the record
- 1920sPringle of Scotland built its knitwear identity on the argyle, worn for golf by the Duke of Windsor.
Often confused with
Sources & References
- 1.Argyle (pattern), Wikipedia
- 2.Argyle knitwear, Wikipedia