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Hodden or wadmel is a coarse kind of cloth made of undyed wool, formerly much worn by the peasantry of Scotland. It was usually made on small hand-looms by the peasants. Hodden grey was made by mixing black and white fleeces together in the proportion of one to twelve when weaving.[1]
In his poem "A Man's a Man for a' That", Robert Burns wrote
- What though on hamely fare we dine,
- Wear hodden grey, an' a that;
- Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine;
- A Man's a Man for a' that."
Hodden Grey was adopted by the London Scottish Regiment, and the Toronto Scottish Regiment (Canada). It was chosen because, as Lord Elcho[citation needed] said, "A soldier is a man hunter. As a deer stalker chooses the least visible of colours, so ought a soldier to be clad."[citation needed]
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References
- ^ public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hodden". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 556. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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