Glen plaid or Glenurquhart check is a wool

Wool

Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and certain other animals, including cashmere from goats, mohair from goats, qiviut from muskoxen, vicuña, alpaca, camel from animals in the camel family, and angora from rabbits....

len fabric

Fabric

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 with a woven

Weaving

Weaving is a method of fabric production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth. The other methods are knitting, lace making and felting. The longitudinal threads are called the warp and the lateral threads are the weft or filling...

 twill

Twill

Twill is a type of textile weave with a pattern of diagonal parallel ribs . This is done by passing the weft thread over one or more warp threads and then under two or more warp threads and so on, with a "step" or offset between rows to create the characteristic diagonal pattern. Because of this...

 design of small and large checks

Check (fabric)

A check is a pattern consisting of crossed horizontal and vertical lines forming squares.-Etymology:...

. The name is taken from the valley of Glenurquhart  in Inverness

Inverness

Inverness is a city in the Scottish Highlands. It is the administrative centre for the Highland council area, and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands of Scotland...

-shire

Shire

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, Scotland

Scotland

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, where the checked wool was first used in the 19th century by the New Zealand-born countess of Seafield

James Ogilvie-Grant, 11th Earl of Seafield

James Ogilvie-Grant, 11th Earl of Seafield DL , briefly known as Viscount Reidhaven in 1888, was a Scottish nobleman....

 to outfit her gamekeeper

Gamekeeper

A gamekeeper is a person who manages an area of countryside to make sure there is enough game for shooting, or fish for angling, and who actively manages areas of woodland, moorland, waterway or farmland for the benefit of game birds, deer, fish and wildlife in general.Typically, a gamekeeper is...

s, though the name glen plaid does not appear before 1926. Glen plaid is sometimes nickname

Nickname

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d the Prince of Wales

Prince of Wales

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 check, as it was popularized by the Duke of Windsor when Prince of Wales

Edward VIII of the United Kingdom

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.

Pee-wee Herman

Pee-wee Herman

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 is famous for his light grey Glen plaid suit

Suit (clothing)

In clothing, a suit is a set of garments made from the same cloth, consisting of at least a jacket and trousers. Lounge suits are the most common style of Western suit, originating in the United Kingdom as country wear...

, and US President Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

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 was considered "un-Presidential" in a gray-and-blue glen plaid suit on a European trip in 1982.

Glen plaid as a woven pattern may be extended to cotton shirt

Shirt

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ing and other non-woollen fabrics.