Baluch Regiment (Military)
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 RGRGRGRBW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3969
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 1993 — Baluch Regiment (Military) (tartans-authority, record)
It's not known which came first - Baluch tartan or Fitzgerald tartan. If tradition held sway it was probably an early Commanding officer called Fitzgerald who had the Regiment (variously called Baluchi or Baluchistan) adopt his tartan. Needs more research. This is the old threadcount, a threadcount taken from a sample returned to Harry Lindley in 1993 by a Terence Rochford of the Baluch Officers' Dining Club' is shown at # 6046 (no longer in d/base!). Dec. 2009. Don Brown/Tom Sinclair Scrapbook has graphic of this tartan with a note saying it was named after the Colonel - mystery solved! - 01/01/2002 — Fitzgerald (Military) (register-of-tartans, record)
Based on Rothesay #1533 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) dating possibly early 1900s. Adopted by the Baluch Regiment in India, the connection with Fitzgerald being the name of the commanding officer at the time. Has become the Fitzgerald tartan ever since. The 10th Baluch or Baluch Regiment was a regiment of the British Indian Army from 1922 to 1947. After the Partition of India, it was transferred to the Pakistan Army. In 1956, it was amalgamated with the 8th Punjab and Bahawalpur Regiments. During more than a hundred years of military service, the 10th Baluch Regiment acquired an enviable reputation as one of the most distinguished among the fabled regiments of the British Indian Army. Its long list of honours and awards includes four Victoria Crosses. James MacKinlay's book of hand coloured tartan stripes, 1930-1950 is retained in the Scottish Tartans Society archive.
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
- pre 1993 (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: 1194
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3969
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1524
Thread count
R/10 G40 R10 G6 R8 G10 R72 DO4 W/8
One full sett is 318 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DO | #412714 #412714 | oklch(30.1% 0.050 55.7) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/r5g20r5g3r4g5r36do2w4~x2/