Finzean's Fancy
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 WBRKWGYRKRYBKRYW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 16 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1186
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1985 — Finzean's Fancy (register-of-tartans, record)
Seen in the Stonehaven Museum. Finzean kilt from the Riach Family. Presented to the Museum by Mrs M.E. Smith of Hayes, Middlesex. The outfit consisted of a jacket, waistcoat & kilt. Details from Sindex card. Finzean is a village in Aberdeenshire. Significance of 'Fancy' not known. Threadcount not entirely clear on Sindex card. Sindex notes say this is another name for the Clan Chattan Chief's tartan and they are very close - see #1852 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference). - pre 1985? — Finzean's Fancy (Artefact) (tartans-authority, record)
Seen in the Stonehaven Museum (in the 1980's?). Finzean kilt from the Riach Family. Presented to the Museum by Mrs M E Smith of Hayes, Middx. The outfit consisted of a jacket, wasitcoat & kilt. Details from Sindex card. Finzean is a village in Aberdeenshire. Significance of 'Fancy' not known. Threadcount not entirely clear on Sindex card. Sindex notes say this is another name for the Chattan Chief's tartan and they ARE very close - see #1852.
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
- 1985 (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: 1186
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1860
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1860
Thread count
LB/16 LO16 R12 K12 B56 LO24 R12 K4 R12 LO24 G56 LB4 K8 R108 DR2 LB/4
One full sett is 720 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| B | #788CB4 #788CB4 | oklch(63.9% 0.065 264.0) |
| R | #8C0000 #8C0000 | oklch(40.2% 0.165 29.2) |
| DR | #501414 #501414 | oklch(29.3% 0.090 24.6) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #C8C8C8 #C8C8C8 | oklch(83.3% 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/s16/lb8lo8r6k6b28lo12r6k2r6lo12g28lb2k4r54dr1lb2x2lb3300000-r1607033-b2603265/