Inverness Fencibles

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 BRBGRGRGRBRBRBRGRGRGBR.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 22 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1846

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/01/2002 — Inverness Fencibles (register-of-tartans, record)
    The Inverness Fencibles were at one time known as the Fraser Fencibles. This tartan is sometimes considered as the Fraser Ancient, Lovat Tartan. Paton collection used to be in the Scottish Tartans Society archive , it is now back with the Paton firm at Alloa.
  • undated — Inverness, Fencibles (weddslist, 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
2002 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

DB/2 R2 DB20 G20 R26 G4 R26 G20 R2 DB2 R2 DB20 R2 DB2 R2 G20 R26 G4 R26 G20 DB20 R/2

One full sett is 536 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)

Sample pattern

DB/2 R2 DB20 G20 R26 G4 R26 G20 R2 DB2 R2 DB20 R2 DB2 R2 G20 R26 G4 R26 G20 DB20 R/2 tartan

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.

FraserFraser, Stewart of AtholFraser Stewart of AtholFraser of StratherrickFraserMatheson (Clan)Fraser of Lovat Clan TartanRossRossRoss Clan Tartangroundcomplexity

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