Fraser of Boblainy, Hugh (Personal)
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 BRGBR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 5 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2528
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1805 — Fraser of Boblainy, Hugh (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Based on research by James D. Scarlett, reference "Tartan Banner", spring 1990, referring to a plaid of Hugh Fraser of Boblainy, last of that line, who inherited estate from a cousin in 1805. JDS took the count from a 'spectacle-shaped' fragment measuring 14ins x 6ins. Tartan Society records have the same count but incorrect graphic. Photo of spectacle-shaped piece in STA archives. - undated — Fraser of Boblainy, Hugh (register-of-tartans, record)
Based on research by Jamie Scarlett MBE, reference 'Tartan Banner', spring 1990, referring to a plaid of Hugh Fraser of Boblainy, last of that line, who inherited estate from a cousin in 1805. Jamie Scarlett MBE took the count from a 'spectacle-shaped' fragment measuring 14ins x 6ins. Scottish Tartans Society records have the same count but incorrect graphic. Lochcarron sample.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 1805 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 1263
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2528
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2528
Thread count
DB/4 R56 G28 DB28 R/4
One full sett is 232 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| 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/s5/db1r14g7db7r1~x4/