tattersalln.

tattersall (n.)fabric with small and even check pattern, 1891, so called because it was similar to the traditional design of horse blankets, in reference to Tattersall\\'s, a famous London horse market and gambler\\'s rendezvous, founded 1766 by Richard Tattersall (1724-1795). The surname is from the place in Lincolnshire, which is said to represent "Tathere\\'s nook," "probably in the sense \\'nook of dry ground in marsh\\'." [Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names]