Fraser Gathering, Green (1997)
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 RBGGGBGGW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1255
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1997 Unknown until House of Edgar published their own Old and Rare.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/05/1997 — Fraser Gathering, Green (1997) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed in 1997 by Polly Wittering of the Macnaughton Group and Lady Saltoun for the Castle Fraser Gathering at Fraser Castle, Aberdeenshire in July 1997 for use by all Frasers A Dress version of the Hunting pattern, based itself on the tartans of Clan Fraser and Buchan District, the area around Fraserburgh. - 1997 — Fraser Gathering, Green (Commem) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Polly Wittering of the Macnaughton Group and Lady Saltoun for the Castle Fraser Gathering in July 1997 and for use by all Frasers. - 1997 — Fraser Gathering Hunting Trade Tartan (house-of-tartan, 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
- 01/05/1997 (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: 1255
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2363
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2363
Thread count
R/4 DB24 DG4 G22 DG8 DB10 G4 DG48 W/4
One full sett is 248 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/r2db12dg2g11dg4db5g2dg24w2~x2/