Thompson (J.C.'s Fancy) (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 GKGBYR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4109
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Thompson (J.C.'s Fancy) (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
J.C. Thompson of Arlington, Virginia thought that the customary brown hunting colours did not properly reflect the derivation from MacTavish so 'J.C.'s Fancy' was designed with red stripe on brown, and blue border on brown. Also known as MacTavish, hunting. Tartan Society notes say it was for 'his own use' He commissioned James Scarlett MBE to weave one kilt length for him who commented in September 2003 'The shade of brown that I used for Thompson's Fancy was matched to what I got when I tried to dye scarlet with Ladies Bedstraw. I now know I overheated it, but that is what happened. It was not, of course, a fancy tartan, but one that Thompson fancied.' - pre 2002 — Thompson (J.C.'s Fancy) (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Same as 3595 (MacTavish). J.C.Thompson of Arlington, Virginia thought that the customary brown hunting colours did not properly reflect the derivation from MacTavish so "J.C.'s Fancy" was designed with red stripe on brown,and blue border on brown. also known as MacTavish, hunting. Tartan Society notes say it was for 'his own use' He commissioned James Scarlett MBE to weave one kilt length for him who commented in September 2003 "The shade of brown that I used for Thompson's Fancy was matched to what I got when I tried to dye scarlet with Ladies Bedstraw. I now know I overheated it, but that is what happened. It was not, of course, a fancy tartan, but one that Thompson fancied." . .
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
- 2002 (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: 4109
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 286
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 286
Thread count
R/12 LY48 DB12 Y24 K24 Y/6
One full sett is 234 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| 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/s6/r2ly8db2y4k4y1~x6/