Fraser of Altyre
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 BRGRBRBRBRBRBR.
Part of the Fraser of Altyre tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1262
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1830 — Fraser of Altyre (register-of-tartans, record)
Said by Scottish Tartans Society to be a proportional count of a silk sample from Andersons (now Kinloch Anderson). MacGregor-Hastie aged it about 1850 on the basis of an old lady (c.1938) who said that a kilt of this patterns had been in the family for about 100 years. Silk sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Collection. House of Edgar weave omits a blue line (the Blue8). - 1830 — Fraser of Altyre (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Said by Scottish Tartans Society to be a proportional count of a silk sample from Andersons (now Kinloch Anderson). MacGregor-Hastie aged it about 1850 on the basis of an old lady (c.1938) who said that a kilt of this patterns had been in the family for about 100 years. Silk sample in STA Collection. House of Edgar weave omits a blue line (the Blue8).
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
- 1830 (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: 1262
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 528
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 528
Thread count
R/8 DB4 R90 DB4 R4 DB80 R8 DB8 R4 DB4 R4 DG80 R4 DB/4
One full sett is 600 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/s14/r4db2r45db2r2db40r4db4r2db2r2dg40r2db2~x2/