Fitzpatrick
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 WGWGWGBKBKW.
Part of the Fitzpatrick tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1199
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1978 — Fitzpatrick (register-of-tartans, record)
Original notes read as follows: 'Thread count estimated from a tracing of swatch in Pendleton book 'Irish Tartans', 1990 by Jan Crook.' However, the real story as related by Jan Crook in July 2003 is that she wove a sash in July 1992 based on a piece of tartan given to her by a Bill Fitzpatrick of 14252 Campagna Way, Watsonville, CA 95076. The sample was said to have come from Pendelton Woollen Mills of Oregon who had apparently woven it and who gave their permission to Jan to weave the sash. Apparently Bill Fitzpatrick then registered the tartan as Fitzpatrick with Tartan Educational & Cultural Association on January 1992. Close resemblance to Royal Stewart. The Irish Tartan book was probably Clans Originaux which has long - and erroneously - been held to contain about a dozen Irish tartans. Study of the contents pages by the Scottish Tartans Authority in 2003 showed that there is no Fitzpatrick in it or any other tartans that could be construed as Irish. Research continues to track down the source of this - apparently - false attribution. Sindex notesd say 'By the amount of white used it might be suspected that this is intended to be the 'Dress' version.' Woven by Strathmore Woollen Co. Ltd, Forfar. - 1991 — Fitzpatrick (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Original notes read as follows: "Thread count estimated from a tracing of swatch in Pendleton book "Irish Tartans", 1990 by Jan Crook." However, the real story as related by Jan Crook in July 2003 is that she wove a sash in July 1992 based on a piece of tartan given to her by a Bill Fitzpatrick of 14252 Campagna Way, Watsonville, CA 95076. The sample was said to have come from Pendelton Woollen Mills of Oregon who had apparently woven it and who gave their permission to Jan to weave the sash. Apparently Bill Fitzpatrick then registered the tartan as Fitzpatrick with TECA on January 1992. Close resemblance to Royal Stewart. The Irish Tartan book was probably Clans Originaux which has long - and erroneously - been held to contain about a dozen Irish tartans. Study of the contents pages by the STA in 2003 showed that there is no Fitzpatrick in it or any other tartans that could be construed as Irish. Research continues to track down the source of this - apparently - false attribution. Sindex notesd say "By the amount of white used it might be suspected that this is intended to be the 'Dress' version." Woven by Strathmore Woollen Co. Ltd, Forfar.(Lightweight only). Jan Crook original woven sample.
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
- 1978 (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: 1199
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1813
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1813
Thread count
W/12 Y4 W4 Y6 W22 G22 T4 K24 T6 K12 W/4
One full sett is 224 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/w6y2w2y3w11g11t2k12t3k6w2~x2/