Forsyth (1795)
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 KGGKBR.
Part of the Forsyth tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1236
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1795 — Forsyth (1795) (register-of-tartans, record)
This is the sett used by contempory weavers but there has to be a question mark over its accuracy - see #2085 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference). Very similar to Leslie with the yellow stripe replacing the white. 'History of the Forsyth Family' (Jennie Forsyth Jeffrie, 1918) gives the history. Clan Chief Alistair Forsyth was recognised by Lord Lyon in 1978 - the first for over 300 years. (Scottish Tartans Society). See #6803 (original Scottish Tartans Authority ref) for a slightly different count and the use of azure in place of blue. Weavers now call the azure version 'old colours'. Sindex notes say that this sett was said to have been designed c.1795 by William Forsyth, a tailor in Huntly. It was he who had been commissioned by the Duchess of Gordon to design a suitable sett for the 75th or Gordon Highlanders raised in 1794. The following extract from the Lord Lyon's Tartan Committee is dated May 1991. - 1795 — Forsyth (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
This is the sett used by contempory weavers but there has to be a question mark over its accuracy - see #2085. Very similar to Leslie with the yellow stripe replacing the white. 'History of the Forsyth Family' (Jennie Forsyth Jeffrie, 1918) gives the history. Clan Chief Alistair Forsyth was recognised by Lord Lyon in 1978 - the first for over 300 years. (STS). See 6803 for a slightly different count and the use of azure in place of blue. Weavers now call the azure version 'old colours'. Sindex notes say that this sett was said to have been designed c.1795 by William Forsyth, a tailor in Huntly. It was he who had been commissioned by the Duchess of Gordon to design a suitable sett for the 75th or Gordon Highlanders raised in 1794. The following extract from the Lord Lyon's Tartan Committee is dated May 1991.
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
- 1795 (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: 1236
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1122
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1122
Thread count
K/8 G44 Y4 K32 T36 R/8
One full sett is 248 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) |
| 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.
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