Chattan, Chief of Clan
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 WGRKWWGRKRGWGWKRW.
Part of the Chattan Chief tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 17 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=624
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1819 — Chattan, Chief of Clan (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan is also known as Finzean's Fancy. Recorded by D Mackintosh of Mackintosh Torcastle, Chief of Clan Chattan in the Lyon Court Public Register of All Arms & Bearings 36/36 on 9 April 1947, specifically for the use of the Chief and his immediate family. The threadcount was taken from 'The Tartans of Clan Chattan' James D Scarlett (2003) and matches that recorded by Lyon if 1 = 8 threads. - 1819 — Chattan (Chief) (tartans-authority, record)
This is the MacKintosh Chief sett (#1622) with a white line on the red ground. The Clan Chattan is supposed to be the same as #1622 but as seen at #1851, is very slightly different. Entered into the Lyon Register XXXVI, 38 on 9th April 1947. This count is taken from Jamie Scarlett's 2003 book "The Tartans of Clan Chattan". Sindex notes on Finzean's Fancy (#1860) say that is another name for Chattan Chief!!
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
- 1819 (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: 624
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1852
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1852
Thread count
W/8 Y24 R16 K16 LB64 W8 Y14 R14 K4 R14 Y14 W8 G64 W4 K8 R120 W/4
One full sett is 796 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| 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) |
| 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/s17/w4y12r8k8lb32w4y7r7k2r7y7w4g32w2k4r60w2~x2/