Ferguson of Balquhidder #2
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 GBRKGK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1167
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1977 (1831) Logan records only two threads for the red stripe. D.C. Stewart calls this Ferguson of Balquhidder to differenciate it from the Ferguson of Athol. Chiefs of the Clan are the Fergussons of Kilkerran, descended from Fergus of Dalriada, who brought the 'Stone of Scone' to Scotland. The Fergussons of Perthshire were recognised as the principal Highland branch of the clan and the chiefship belonged to 'MacFhearghuis' of Dunfallandy. The present day chief is Sir Charles Fergusson of Kilkerran, Bt.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1831 — Ferguson of Balquhidder #2 (register-of-tartans, record)
Scottish Tartans Society notes: Logan records only two threads for the red stripe. D.C. Stewart calls this Ferguson of Balquhidder to differentiate it from the Ferguson of Atholl - of whom they were followers. The green band on the broad blue is now often shown as black. Chiefs of the Clan are the Fergussons of Kilkerran, descended from Fergus of Dalriada, who brought the 'Stone of Scone' to Scotland. The Fergussons of Perthshire were recognised as the principal Highland branch of the clan and the chiefship belonged to 'MacFhearghuis' of Dunfallandy. The present day chief is Sir Charles Fergusson of Kilkerran, But Scottish Tartan Society has alternative sample from MacGregor Hastie Collection in which the green strip in the blue has been changed to black. - 1831 — Ferguson of Balquhidder - 1831 (Clan (tartans-authority, record)
STS notes: Logan records only two threads for the red stripe. D.C. Stewart calls this Ferguson of Balquhidder to differentiate it from the Ferguson of Atholl - of whom they were followers. Chiefs of the Clan are the Fergussons of Kilkerran, descended from Fergus of Dalriada, who brought the 'Stone of Scone' to Scotland. The Fergussons of Perthshire were recognised as the principal Highland branch of the clan and the chiefship belonged to 'MacFhearghuis' of Dunfallandy. The present day chief is Sir Charles Fergusson of Kilkerran, Bt STS has alternative sample from MacGregor Hastie Collection in which the green strip in the blue has been changed to black. - 1977 — Ferguson of Balquhidder Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Ferguson (weddslist, 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
- 1831 (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: 1167
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 738
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 738
Thread count
K/8 G50 K48 R6 DB48 G/8
One full sett is 320 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) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/s6/k4g25k24r3db24g4~x2/