Fitzsimmons Red (Name)
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 GGYKBKGKYG.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=6808
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 2005 — Fitzsimmons Red (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Mark Simmons and Jeffrey Fitzsimmons for those of native or descendent Irish blood bearing the name Fitzsimmons (Fitsimons, Simons, Simmons, MacSimoin and all spelling variations) to instill pride in Irish heritage, but also in remembrance of those of the surname who fought to repel the many invasions of Ireland. Additionally this tartan honours those of the surname who perished during the Great Famine. Woven sample from D C Dalgliesh of Selkirk. The colours tan, dark tan, dark green and olive green are said to represent the land of Ireland and the black is for those who died in the Great Famine. The House of Edgar has express permission to weave this and any other Fitzsimmons' tartans from JF. - 01/08/2007 — Fitzsimmons Red (register-of-tartans, record)
A red variation of the Fitzsimmons tartan at Scottish Register of Tartans #1201.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- pre 2005 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 1202
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6808
Thread count
G/6 LY4 K8 DY12 K8 DR30 K8 LY36 G4 DY/6
One full sett is 232 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) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/s10/dy3g2ly18k4dr15k4dy6k4ly2g3~x2/