Fletcher #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 BKBKRGK.
Part of the Fletcher tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1206
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Fletcher #2 (register-of-tartans, record)
Sometimes known as Fletcher of Saltoun, but commonly worn by all the Scottish Fletchers regardless of family origins. According to legend, ''Is e Clann-an-leisdeir a thog a cued smuid thug goil air uisge 'an Urcha.'' (It was the Fletcher clan that first raised smoke and boiled their water in Glen Orchy.) Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Johnston Collection. Also in 'The Tartans of the Clans and Septs of Scotland' published by W & A. K. Johnston, Edinburgh. The book contains over 200 tartans and was the fore-runner of Johnston's annual pocket editions. Lochcarron swatch. Blue lightened to show sett. - pre 2002 — Fletcher (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Sometimes known as Fletcher of Saltoun, but commonly worn by all the Scottish Fletchers regardless of family origins. According to legend, ''Is e Clann-an-leisdeir a thog a cued smuid thug goil air uisge 'an Urcha.'' (It was the Fletcher clan that first raised smoke and boiled their water in Glen Orchy.) Sample in STA's Johnston Collection. The original notes here said that this Fletcher was also in 1906 edition of 'The Tartans of the Clans and Septs of Scotland' published by W & A. K. Johnston, Edinburgh but that is incorrect - the version in that publication is actually #272 which agrees with the 1880 Clans originaux version. Lochcarron weave both versions. Blue lightened to show sett. 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
- 2002 (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: 1206
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 257
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 257
Thread count
T/20 K6 T20 K28 R4 G28 K/8
One full sett is 200 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) |
| 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/s7/t10k3t10k14r2g14k4~x2/