Wp/nth/Maad

A mawd is a garment at is like a blanket woven iv a pattren o smaa black a white checks. It wes a common kínd o riggin i the soothren coonties o Scotland an northren coonties o Ingland til the furst pairt 20t century. The main is ne langer worn as an iveryday garment but Northumbrian pipers still wears em the day.

Nyems
The mawd wes ken'd bi mony nyems i different pairts o soothren Scotlan an noorthren Ingland. It wes knawn as a 'maud' or 'mawd' i soothren Scotland an northren Jngland but 'maad' i pairts o Scotland an Northumberland an a, 'mad' i Lancashire an 'maund' i West Yorkshire. Iv its lang form it wes caa'd a 'shepherd's mawd', i Northumberland, a 'herd's mawd', an i pairts o sooth-west Scotland, a Moffat maud.