Lovat or Fraser Clan Tartan
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 BRBRBRGRB.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=400
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1820 The Scottish Tartans Society archives contain several queries on this name. J. Scarlett lists this sett under Fraser (Frasers of Lovat) with the comment. "The pattern is reputed to have been woven by Wilson's c.1820." (STS archive). 18 year old Simon Fraser became 25th chief of the Frasers of Lovat in March 1995, on the death of his grandfather, Lord Lovat, the famous war veteran. (Scotsman 17 March 1995)
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1820 — Lovat or Fraser Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Lovat or Fraser (register-of-tartans, record)
Several queries on this name. J.Scarlett lists this sett under Fraser (Frasers of Lovat) with the comment. "The pattern is reputed to have been woven by Wilson's c.1820. Wilsons of Bannockburn a weaving firm founded c1770 near Stirling, The Pattern books are in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh. Copies of the Pattern books and letters are in the Scottish Tartans Society archive. - undated — Lovat, or Fraser (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1820 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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: 2235
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 400
Thread count
DP/2 R14 G44 R46 DP2 R46 DP44 R14 DP/2
One full sett is 424 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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/s9/dp1r7dp22r23dp1r23g22r7dp1~x2/