In pattern RBRGRW.

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripes tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1247

Attestations

This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.

• 01/01/1745 — Fraser (1745) (register-of-tartans, record)
• 1829 Cromarty Ms — Fraser - 1842 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)

Thread count

R/4 DB24 R4 G24 R48 W/2

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

Sample pattern

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

1. Buccleuch Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1505. Earliest known date: c.1840 Reduced 50% proportionally. Described by Wilson as a 'Fancy' pattern, taking inspiration from the works of Sir Walter Scott. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.68
2. Buccleuch — ΔT 0.71
3. Plummer (Personal) — ΔT 0.72
4. MacPhail Red Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1031. Earliest known date: 1930-50 This sample comes from the MacGregor-Hastie collection which forms the basis of the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. Some of the samples, including this one, were unmarked. One can assume that the sample dates between 1930 and 1950. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.82
5. Ruthven Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1521. Earliest known date: 1842 The name Ruthven comes from the old Barony of Ruthven in Angus. Ruthvens were Earls of Gowrie at the time of James VI of Scotland. More recently Sir Alexander Hore- Ruthven of Freeland, Governor General of Australia, was created Earl of Gowrie in 1945. The Ruthven tartan was not named until the publication of the romantic fiction known as the Vestiarium Scoticum in 1842. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.83
6. MacPhail — ΔT 0.84
7. Unidentified #20 — ΔT 0.85
8. Fraser — ΔT 0.90
9. Ruthven — ΔT 0.92
10. MacPhail Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1028. Earliest known date: pre 1950 This sample comes from the MacGregor-Hastie collection which forms the basis of the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. Some of the samples, including this one, were unmarked. One can assume that the sample dates between 1930 and 1950. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.96

Neighbour map

Every grey dot is one of 15726 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.

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