Plaid

Plaid  may refer to:

Fabric

 * A synonym for tartan cloth, primarily in North American English
 * Full plaid, a cloth blanket or mantle, made with a tartan or checked pattern, wrapped around the waist, cast over the shoulder and fastened at the front
 * Fly plaid, a smaller tartan-cloth mantle, worn pinned to the left shoulder
 * Belted plaid or "great kilt", an earlier form of the kilt, it was a large plaid (blanket) pleated by hand and belted around the waist
 * Arisaid, ladieswear equivalent of the belted plaid, worn until the 18th century as a large shawl or wrapped into a dress; in later times, shrank to a smaller plaid worn as a shoulder or head shawl
 * Maud (plaid) or Lowland plaid, a cloth mantle made in a small black-and-white chequered pattern
 * A plaid (tartan) shirt, typically of flannel and worn during the winter
 * A plaid (tartan) jacket, often made of Mackinaw cloth
 * Windowpane plaid, a way of crossing warp and weft to create a pattern

Others

 * Plaid (album), a 1992 album by guitarist Blues Saraceno
 * Plaid (band), a British electronic music duo, taking their name from the Welsh word for party
 * Plaid Cymru, a political party in Wales
 * Plaid Inc., a financial technology company specializing in bank login verification
 * Plaid Loch, freshwater lake in East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
 * Plaid speed, a faster-than-light speed from the movie Spaceballs
 * Plaid, branding for the high-performance version of the Tesla Model S, and the Tesla Model X