Fitzgerald Red
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 KRWRBRBRGRBRWRK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1197
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1975 — Fitzgerald Red (register-of-tartans, record)
A confusing situation with four Fitezgerald tartans all apparently designed by Robert P. Fitzgerald of Philadelphia, (prior to 1976, when JC Thomson submitted this data and swatches to WHJ). Starting with this variation of Robertson (for no discernible reason) he then designed the blue and hunting as colour variations and a further 'fancy dress' version. - 1975 — Fitzgerald Red (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
A confusing situation with four Fitzgerald tartans all apparently designed by Robert P. Fitzgerald of Philadelphia, (prior to 1976, when JCT submitted this data and swatches to WHJ). Starting with this variation of Robertson (for no documented reason) he then designed the blue and hunting as color variations and a further "fancy dress" version.
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
- 1975 (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: 1197
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 576
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 576
Thread count
K/8 R8 W8 R56 T8 R8 G50 R8 T50 R8 T8 R56 W8 R8 K/8
One full sett is 584 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) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s15/k4r4w4r28t4r4g25r4t25r4t4r28w4r4k4~x2/