Grant (Wilson's 1819 Key Pattern Book)
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 BKBKBKGRGKG.
Part of the Grant tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1501
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1819 — Grant (Wilson's 1819 Key Pattern Book) (register-of-tartans, record)
Sir James Grant of Grant raised two regiments in the last decade of the 18th century: the 1st Strathspey Fencible Regiment and the 97th Regiment of Foot. Both regiments almost certainly wore this tartan but it was documented simply as 'Grant' in the Wilson's 1819 Key Pattern Book. - 1819 — Grant Htg (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Tartan Society records show #312 which is the MacGregor Hastie version but it is so close to this sett that it is not included here. James Cant notes state: "This clan had no hunting tartan of its own until about 1730. At that time many of the Cadets of the Clan were officers in the Black Watch and they adopted the tartan of the Watch as their Hunting Tartan". As Jamie Scarlett MBE pointed out in 1997, Wilsons of Bannockburn were not above recycling tartans that had outlived their useful life or cannibalising ones that were still in use. If you remove the black lines from the blue, the tartan is transformed into a popular fashion tartan - the Regent. Ignore the fact that one is blue and the other purple. Wilson's purple was what we would now call dark blue. Sample in STA's Scarlett Collection.
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
- 1819 (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: 1501
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 311
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 311
Thread count
T/44 K8 T8 K8 T8 K44 G44 R10 G12 K4 Y/6
One full sett is 342 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) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s11/t22k4t4k4t4k22g22r5g6k2y3~x2/