Fitzpatrick Irish Family Tartan
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 GGGGGKBKG.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=766
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1880 This pattern was recorded by Bill Johnston, Shippak, USA in 1978 along with other patterns extracted from the 'Clan Originaux' at Pendleton Mill. This and other Irish patterns appear to have originated in the former Waterford Mill in Ireland before they arrived at Pendleton in the late 19C.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1880 — Fitzpatrick Irish Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 01/01/2002 — Fitzpatrick Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
It's not known where this version of Fitzpatrick came from. There is no Sindex card for it but some Sindex notes do say 'If the above is true (referring to the comment in #1813 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) regarding the amount of white in that sett) then this might reasonably be expected to be the 'Hunting'. The structure of both setts is very similar to that of Cameron of Erracht. - pre 2002 — Fitzpatrick Htg (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
It's not known where this version of Fitzpatrick came from. There is no Sindex card for it but some Sindex notes do say "If the above is true (referring to the comment in #1813 regarding the amount of white in that sett) then this might reasonably be expected to be the 'Hunting'. The structure of both setts is very simliar to that of Cameron of Erracht. - undated — Fitzpatrick (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1880 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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: 1200
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 766
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 766
Thread count
G/20 Y4 G12 Y8 G32 K32 DB4 K32 G/4
One full sett is 272 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) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/s9/g5y1g3y2g8k8db1k8g1~x4/