Fitzgibbon Red
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 BKBGBRBKR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10035
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 20/05/2009 — Fitzgibbon Red (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan has the same pattern as the Fitzgibbon tartan but uses different colours. The Fitzgibbon tartan is predominantly green. The Fitzgibbon Red is for use by all of the name Fitzgibbon, Fitzgibbons, Fitz-Gibbon, Gibbons, or any other variant. - 20th May 2009 — Fitzgibbon Red (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
This tartan has the same pattern as the predominantly green Fitzgibbon tartan and can be worn by all of the name and its variants - Fitzgibbons, FitzGibbon, Gibbons etc.
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
- 20/05/2009 (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: 10035
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10035
Thread count
DR/4 K12 DR48 G4 DR4 R2 DR12 K2 R/4
One full sett is 176 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| 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/s9/dr2k6dr24g2dr2r1dr6k1r2~x2/