Fraser Hunting
This is one variant — a specific cloth: this exact thread count and colourway, with its own provenance below. It is one weaving of the sett (the scale-free proportion — the same cloth at any scale or shade), whose colour order is pattern RGGGBGBGGGW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1258
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1906 (1855) In the Hunting Fraser, brown replaces the red of the Clan sett. The late Charles Ian Fraser of Reeling said, in his publication, "Clan Fraser", that this sett was designed by the Sobieski Stuart brothers at the request of Lord Lovat for use by the Inverness and Nairn militia. A letter to Lord Lovat from the War Office, c.1855, authorised the use of the Fraser tartan for the corps. The tartan is worn by the Boghall & Bathgate pipe bands. (Strathallan 1994)
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1842 — Fraser Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
In this, brown simply replaces the red of the Clan sett (#1424, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) and red replaces each alternate white. The late Charles Ian Fraser of Reelig said, in his publication, ''Clan Fraser', that this sett was designed by the Sobieski Stuart brothers at the request of Lord Lovat for use by the Inverness and Nairn militia. A letter to Lord Lovat from the War Office, c.1855, authorised the use of the Fraser tartan for the corps. D. C. Stewart suggests that the tartan is of more recent origin. - 1842 — Fraser Htg (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
In this, brown simply replaces the red of the Clan sett (ITI 1424) and red replaces eachg alternate white. The late Charles Ian Fraser of Reelig said, in his publication, ''Clan Fraser", that this sett was designed by the Sobieski Stuart brothers at the request of Lord Lovat for use by the Inverness and Nairn militia. A letter to Lord Lovat from the War Office, c.1855, authorised the use of the Fraser tartan for the corps. D. C. Stewart suggests that the tartan is of more recent origin. 1729 was a duplicate of this and has been deleted. Also worn by the Lovat Scouts and a TA unit on thre east coast (Sept 2008). - 1906 — Fraser Hunting Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Register of Tartans
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/register-of-tartans/data.csv
- data date
- 1842 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - thetartan/tartan-database 2016-2017 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Levko Kravets's frozen compilation — the capture we vendored, and where its CC licence text came from - this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 1258
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1659
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1659
Thread count
R/6 DY36 G20 DY4 DB20 DY4 DB20 DY4 G20 DY36 W/6
One full sett is 340 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartan variants
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 13621 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (42% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /variants/s11/r3dy18g10dy2db10dy2db10dy2g10dy18w3~x2/