![]() ![]() In the 1930s the checkerboard pattern was incorporated into the design of Scotland's police uniform which was later nicknamed Sillitoe tartan and adopted as a police symbol globally. Following the battle of Culloden, wearing check or tartan was banned through the Dress Act 1746 in an attempt to control Scottish clans who supported the Jacobite rising of 1745. The design was introduced by the Celts before it became a staple of highland dress. The pattern, in its tartan variation, is prominent in Scottish garment designs and gained notoriety from the 16th century onwards among Scottish Highlanders. Notable instances of its usage in England includes its appearance on the exterior of Hiorne Tower and above the windows in Westminster Hall. This design was popularly used across England and in nearby regions in parish churches and small houses following the 16th-century Reformation. Checkered exterior of Hiorn TowerĬheck appears in architecture as checkerwork (also chequer-work or diapering): a laying of bricks or tiles of two different materials or colours in an arrangement that, when finished, resembles the checkered pattern. The checkered garter snake, chequered skipper and cleridae, commonly known as checkered beetles exemplify natural occurrences of the pattern which have emerged without human interference or stimuli. Ĭheck may not have a single foundation specific to a practice, region or type of material because it appears within nature and thus can be imitated and adapted. The checkerboard pattern has also been identified in Bronze Age pottery and ancient Roman architecture. Check's variant tartan appears on the 3000-year-old mummy the Cherchen Man. Weavers have long produced checked patterns, but fashion trends and its level of ubiquitousness vary over time. This is illustrated by the comparative age of weaving which creates a checkered pattern as a byproduct of its process, as weaving is estimated to have originated in the neolithic period or approximately 10000 BC. Human uses for check predate its notable usage on the checkerboard in the board game chess, which was developed in its chaturanga iteration in the late 6th or early 7th century AD. Its design and incorporation by humans into pattern-making and weaving precedes its common etymological characterisation and derivation from the word shah in chess the language conventions from which the contemporary English word 'check' is extracted are younger than some appearances of the pattern or its variations. There are few known instances of its import into the regions and cultures in which it is featured. The incorporation of the checkerboard pattern in man-made objects has no definitive origin as the pattern has existed in assorted forms with multiple variations across continents and time periods. The word entered the French language as echec in the eleventh century, thence into English. It is more specifically derived from the expression shah mat, "the king is dead", which in modern chess parlance is referred to " check-mate". ![]() The word is derived from the ancient Persian word shah which means "king" in the Sasanian game of Shatranj an old form of chess which is played on a squared board of alternating coloured checkers. The pattern's all-pervasiveness and simple layout has lent to its practical usage in scientific experimentation and observation, optometry, technology (hardware and software), and as a symbol for responders to associate meaning with. Such is the case with check in ska and on the keffiyeh. The pattern is commonly placed onto garments and is, in certain social contexts, applied to clothing which is worn to signify cultural or political affiliations. The pattern typically contains two colours where a single checker (that is a single square within the check pattern) is surrounded on all four sides by a checker of a different colour. Check (also checker, Brit: chequer, or dicing) is a pattern of modified stripes consisting of crossed horizontal and vertical lines which form squares. ![]()
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