Prince Charles Edward (Edinburgh)
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 GRKRBRKRKRGRK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4422
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1893 'Old and Rare Scottish Tartans' (1893), contains a selection of forty five setts, woven in silk, of special interest or antiquity. Many of the illustrated tartans owe their present day popularity to the publication of this work. The author was D. W. Stewart.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1745 — Prince Charles Edward (Edinburgh) (register-of-tartans, record)
The reason for such a profusion of Prince Charles Edward tartans is said to be his habit of honouring his host at that time by wearing his tartan. In his travels he obviously stayed/hid with many hosts. 'Old and Rare Scottish Tartans' (1893) states: 'Fragments employed in the preparation of this illustration are portions of a plaid worn by Prince Charles Edward during his brief sojourn in Edinburgh in 1745. On his departure he presented the garment to Susanna, Countess of Eglinton, a belle of the day at whose house in the Canongate he was a frequent visitor.' Apparently she divided it up amongst her seven daughters and the portions ended up being greatly mutilated (even made into slippers). The name Albany refers to one of the Italian titles borne Bonnie Prince Charlie - Duke of Albany. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Scarlett Collection. - 1746 — Albany (Artefact?) (tartans-authority, record)
Photo of woven sample submitted 5th April 2011 by Heather Anderson of The House of Tartan in Menora, Western Australia Label on woven sample says: "Original Albany Tartan made Albany Woollen Mills 1950s." The 1950s date is very dubious since the mills weren't known by that name until the 1970s when they were 'rescued' by Holmes Court when he entered the corporate stage by accident in 1970, when his law firm was asked to act as receiver of a small publicly listed company, Western Australian Worsted & Woollen Mills (later Albany Woollen Mills, also known as AWM or WA Wool). The company was the single largest employer in the regional city of Albany. This is one of many claimed Prince Charles Edward tartans since he appeared to be in the habit of honouring his host at that time by wearing his tartan. In his travels he obviously stayed/hid with many hosts.'Old and Rare Scottish Tartans' (1893) states: "Fragments employed in the preparation of this illustration are portions of a plaid worn by Prince Charles Edward during his brief sojourn in Edinburgh in 1745. On his departure he presented the garment to Susanna, Countess of Eglinton, a belle of the day at whose house in the Canongate he was a frequent visitor." Apparently she divided it up amongst her seven daughters and the portions ended up being greatly mutilated (even made into slippers). The name Albany refers to one of the Italian titles borne Bonnie Prince Charlie - Duke of Albany. Sample in STA's Scarlett Collection. - 1893 — Prince Charles Plaid Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Prince Charles, Albany, Plaid (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
- 1745 (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: 4422
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1170
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1170
Thread count
Y/6 R6 K10 R4 DB18 R14 K2 R6 K2 R14 G14 R4 K/4
One full sett is 198 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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/s13/y3r3k5r2db9r7k1r3k1r7g7r2k2~x2/