Tartan is a pattern of textile also known as plaid (especially in North American English), often associated with Scotland.
Tartan may also refer to:
Tartan, a metonym standing in for 'Scottish' (as in "tartan politics", "tartan television", "tartan humour", etc.) Tartan (Assyrian), the Assyrian term for a military commander-in-chief Tartan, tartane, or tartana, a type of ship Tartans, students and sports teams of Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon Tartans football The Tartan (Carnegie Mellon University), a student newspaper The Tartan (Radford University), a student newspaper The Tartans, a Jamaican reggae band FBgn0010452 also known as tartan, trn, or CG11280, a gene partly responsible for eye development in Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies; capitalized Tartan or Trn refers to a protein controlled by this gene. Sillitoe tartan, the chequered pattern (dicing, not actually a tartan) used often on police vehicles and headgear Tartan Army, fans of Scotland's national football team Tartan Films, a US and UK film-distribution company Tartan Laboratories, an American software company later known as Tartan, Inc. Tartan Marine, a boat building company Tartan Noir, a form of crime fiction particular to Scotland and Scottish writers Tartan Senior High School, in Oakdale, Minnesota Tartan Track, a synthetic track surface for athletics, manufactured by 3M Tartan Turf, an artificial grass for sports, manufactured by 3M
See also Tiretaine or tiretane, old terms for linsey-woolsey, a type of cloth made from linen and wool Tartarin or tartaryn (rarely tartyn), old terms for tartarium or Tartar cloth, elaborate textiles imported to Europe from Central and East Asia in the medieval period Tarlatan, a very open-weave muslin cloth similar to cheesecloth Plaid (disambiguation)