Fiddes #3
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 GRBKBKRBGBGRKBKBRG.
Part of the Fiddes tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1176
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1800 Unusual sett from Wilsons of Bannockburn
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1790 — Fiddes #3 (register-of-tartans, record)
The count was taken from a manuscript account book in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland in Queen Street, Edinburgh. Rock & Wheel was an early type of soft tartan made with a 'rock-spun' (a spindle) spun warp and a wheel spun weft. This tartan is mentioned by Telford Dunbar in his 1962 'History of Highland Dress' (Page 145) when he states that it appeared in William Wilson's stock list of 1800. - 1800 — Fiddes Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Fiddes (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
- 1790 (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: 1176
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 836
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 836
Thread count
G/24 R22 DP24 K2 DP2 K2 R64 G16 DP16 G16 DP16 R64 K2 DP2 K2 DP24 R22 G/24
One full sett is 640 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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/s18/g12r11dp12k1dp1k1r32dp8g8dp8g8r32k1dp1k1dp12r11g12~x2/