Scotland - Clan Tartans

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This page contains Tartan images approved by the Project for use on Scottish Clan Stickers. If you would like a Tartan image added to this page, please contact the Scotland Project Coordinator for approval.

The Tartans used by the project, as shown below, were chosen using the following criteria: 1) They were created/worn prior to 1815; or 2) they are the oldest known to be used by their respective Clan; or 3) they are recorded with the Court of the Lord Lyon; or 4) they are used by the official Clan Society. It is important to note that Clan specific Tartans were not recorded until after 1815, and that most tartans were regional or military in nature. In fact, many were an evolution of the Highland Military Tartans for specific units.

For example:

When the Highland Society of London decided to establish the first register of tartan in 1816, they wrote round the chiefs asking them to send in samples of their clan tartan. Many of them looked at some ancestral portrait and seized upon the prettiest pattern that was shown.

In a letter from 1816 written by James Hamilton, then Secretary of the Highland Society of London he wrote: -

“I have not received any more tartans, and I rather suspect that some Chiefs do not know which are theirs. Sir Hugh Munro of Foulis says he does not know, and Lady Stafford sent me part of that worn by the 42d as the Sutherland, in which I have every reason to believe she is mistaken. I was thinking of applying to James Sutherland of Forse in Caithness, the heir male of the family….”

Contents 1 Historical Clan Tartans 1.1 A to C 1.2 D to F 1.3 G to I 1.4 J to L 1.5 M 1.6 N to P 1.7 R to T 1.8 U to Z 2 Family Tartans 2.1 A to C 2.2 D to F 2.3 G to I 2.4 J to L 2.5 M 2.6 N to Q 2.7 R to T 2.8 U to Z 3 Geographical and other Tartans 3.1 A 3.2 B 3.3 C 3.4 D 3.5 E 3.6 F 3.7 G 3.8 H 3.9 J 3.10 M 3.11 P 3.12 R 3.13 S 3.14 T

Historical Clan Tartans

A to C

• Abercromby = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans.jpg

• Adam = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-1.jpg

• Agnew = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-205.jpg

• Anderson = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-2.jpg

• Anstruther (Fife District) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-203.jpg

• Arbuthnot = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-3.jpg

• Armstrong = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-4.jpg

• Baillie = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-206.jpg

• Baird = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-5.jpg

• Balfour = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-6.jpg

• Bannerman (Forbes) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-39.jpg

• Barclay = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-7.jpg

• Baxter = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-8.jpg

• Bell = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-9.jpg

• Bethune (MacBeth) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-188.jpg

• Beveridge (Fife District) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-203.jpg

• Blair = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-10.jpg

• Borthwick = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-11.jpg

• Boswell (Tweedside District) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-94.jpg

• Boyd = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-12.jpg

• Boyle (Galloway District) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-21.jpg

• Brodie = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-231.jpg

• Broun / Brown = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-207.jpg

• Bruce = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-14.jpg

• Burnett = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-208.jpg

• Buchan = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-238.jpg

• Buchanan = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-15.jpg

• Calder (Campbell of Cawdor) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-209.jpg

• Cameron (Ancient) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-16.jpg

• Campbell = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-191.jpg (Choice of the Clan Chief)

• Campbell of Breadalbane = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-210.jpg

• Campbell of Cawdor = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-209.jpg

• Campbell (Dress 1880) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-17.jpg

• Carmichael = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-18.jpg

• Carruthers = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-96.jpg

• Cathcart (Paisley District) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-177.jpg

• Chattan = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-19.jpg

• Chisholm = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-20.jpg

• Chisholm of Strathglass = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-22.jpg

• Cochrane = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-110.jpg

• Cockburn = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-211.jpg

• Colquhoun = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-25.jpg

• Colville (Ayrshire District) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-176.jpg

• Craig = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-23.jpg

• Cranstoun = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-24.jpg

• Crawford = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-26.jpg

• Crichton (Edinburgh District) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-73.jpg

• Cumming / Comyn = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-174.jpg

• Cunningham = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-175.jpg

D to F

• Dalrymple = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-27.jpg

• Davidson = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-28.jpg

• Davidson of Tulloch = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-29.jpg

• Dewar (Buchanan) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-15.jpg

• Donnachaidh (Robertson of Struan) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-95.jpg

• Douglas = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-30.jpg

• Drummond = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-31.jpg

• Dunbar = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-33.jpg

• Dunlop = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-34.jpg

• Elliot = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-35.jpg

• Elphinstone = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-212.jpg

• Erskine = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-98.jpg

• Ewing = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-213.jpg

• Farquharson = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-36.jpg

• Fergusson = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-38.jpg

• Fergusson of Balquhidder = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-37.jpg

• Fleming (Murray of Atholl) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-173.jpg

• Forbes = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-39.jpg

• Forrester = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-40.jpg

• Fraser = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-41.jpg

• Fraser of Lovat = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-42.jpg

G to I

• Galbraith = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-43.jpg

• Gibsone/Gibbs/Gibson = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-215.jpg

• Gordon = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-44.jpg

• Graham = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-45.jpg

• Graham of Menteith = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-232.jpg

• Grant = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-46.jpg

• Gray = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-47.jpg

• Grierson (MacGregor) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-87.jpg

• Gunn = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-48.jpg

• Guthrie = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-49.jpg

• Haig (Roxburgh District) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-141.jpg

• Hamilton = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-50.jpg

• Haldane (Graham of Menteith) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-232.jpg

• Hannay = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-51.jpg

• Hay = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-52.jpg

• Henderson / MacKendrick = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-53.jpg

• Hepburn = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-54.jpg

• Home = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-55.jpg

• Hope = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-56.jpg

• Houston = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-216.jpg

• Hunter = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-43.jpg

• Innes = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-57.jpg

• Irvine = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-58.jpg

J to L

• Johnstone = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-59.jpg

• Keith = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-60.jpg

• Kennedy = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-61.jpg

• Kerr = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-62.jpg

• Kirkpatrick (Colquhoun) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-25.jpg

-or- (Douglas) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-30.jpg

• Kincaid = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-63.jpg

• Kinnear (Fife District) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-203.jpg

• Kinnaird = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-168.jpg

• Lamont = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-64.jpg

• Lennox = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-65.jpg

• Learmonth (Tweedside District) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-94.jpg

• Leslie = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-66.jpg

• Lindsay = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-67.jpg

• Little = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-68.jpg

• Livingstone or MacLea = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-69.jpg

• Lockhart = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-70.jpg

• Logan = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-217.jpg

• Lyon = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-71.jpg

M

• MacAlister = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-74.jpg

• MacAlpine = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-75.jpg

• MacAulay = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-76.jpg

• MacBain / MacBean = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-77.jpg

• MacCallum = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-78.jpg

• MacCorquodale = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-79.jpg

• MacCulloch = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-218.jpg

• MacDonald = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-80.jpg

• MacDonald of Clanranald = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-219.jpg

• MacDonald of Glenaladale = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-82.jpg

• MacDonald of Sleat = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-220.jpg

• MacDonald of Keppoch = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-221.jpg

• MacDougall = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-99.jpg

• MacDowall = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-83.jpg

• MacDuff = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-100.jpg

• MacEwen = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-227.jpg

• MacFarlane = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-84.jpg

• MacFie = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-85.jpg

• MacGillivray = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-86.jpg

• MacGregor = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-87.jpg

• MacInnes = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-222.jpg

• MacIntyre = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-88.jpg

• MacIver = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-89.jpg

• MacKay = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-90.jpg

• Mackenzie = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-91.jpg

• MacKinnon = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-93.jpg

• MacKinnon (Hunting) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-101.jpg

• MacKie = (none currently registered)

• MacKintosh = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-92.jpg

• MacLachlan = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-102.jpg

• MacLaine of Lochbuie = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-103.jpg

• MacLaren = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-104.jpg

• MacLea = see Livingstone Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-69.jpg

• MacLean = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-105.jpg

• MacLean of Duart = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-106.jpg

• MacLellan = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-234.jpg

• MacLennan = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-107.jpg

• MacLeod = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-108.jpg

• MacLeod of Lewis = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-223.jpg

• MacLeod of Raasay = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-233.jpg

• MacMillan (Ancient) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-109.jpg

• MacNab = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-111.jpg

• MacNaughton = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-112.jpg

• MacNeil (Dress) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-113.jpg

• MacNeacail / MacNicol / Nicholson = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-167.jpg

• MacNeil of Colonsay = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-114.jpg

• MacPherson = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-115.jpg

• MacQuarrie = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-116.jpg

• MacQueen = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-117.jpg

• MacRae = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-118.jpg

• MacTavish = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-119.jpg

• MacThomas = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-120.jpg

• Makgill = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-121.jpg

• Malcolm = see MacCallum Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-78.jpg

• Mar (Dress) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-122.jpg

• Matheson (Dress) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-123.jpg

• Maxwell = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-124.jpg

• Melville = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-125.jpg

• Menzies = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-200.jpg

• Moncreiffe = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-127.jpg

• Montgomery = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-242.jpg

• Montgomrie/Montgomery of Eglinton = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-129.jpg

• Morrison = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-130.jpg

• Muir = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-131.jpg

• Munro = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-132.jpg

• Murray of Tullibardine = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-172.jpg

• Murray of Atholl = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-173.jpg

N to P

• Napier = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-133.jpg

• Nairn = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-236.jpg

• Nesbitt / Nisbet = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-134.jpg

• Ogilvy = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-135.jpg

• Oliphant = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-136.jpg

• Paisley (Paisley District) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-177.jpg

• Paterson = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-137.jpg

• Pollock = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-138.jpg

• Preston (Edinburgh District) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-73.jpg

• Purves (Tweedside District) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-94.jpg

R to T

• Ramsay = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-139.jpg

• Rattray = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-140.jpg

• Riddell (Roxburgh district tartan) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-141.jpg

• Robertson = see Donnachaidh Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-95.jpg

• Rose = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-142.jpg

• Ross = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-143.jpg

• Rutherford = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-144.jpg

• Ruthven = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-145.jpg

• Scott = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-146.jpg

• Scrymgeour = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-147.jpg

• Sempill = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-148.jpg

• Seton = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-149.jpg

• Shaw = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-150.jpg

• Sinclair = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-151.jpg

• Skene = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-152.jpg

• Somerville = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-224.jpg

• Spens (Spence) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-153.jpg

• Stewart = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-155.jpg

• Stewart of Appin (Stewart Ancient) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-154.jpg

• Stuart of Bute = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-156.jpg

• Stirling = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-157.jpg

• Sutherland = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-158.jpg

• Tailyour / Taylor = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-225.jpg

• Thomson / Thompson = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-159.jpg

• Trotter (Edinburgh District) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-73.jpg

• Turnbull = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-160.jpg

U to Z

• Urquhart = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-97.jpg

• Wallace = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-161.jpg

• Watson = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-162.jpg

• Weir = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-237.jpg

• Wemyss = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-163.jpg

• Wood = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-164.jpg

• Young = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-165.jpg

Family Tartans

A to C

• Abernethy Family (Fraser tartan) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-169.jpg

• Ainslie Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-201.jpg

• Aiton Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-171.jpg

• Alison, Allison Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-197.jpg

• Allardice Family = see Graham Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-45.jpg

• Black Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-192.jpg

• Blackstock Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-202.jpg

• Bonner or Bonnar Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-170.jpg

• Brisbane Family (Paisley District) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-177.jpg

• Burns Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-229.jpg

• Cates Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-178.jpg

• Christie Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-179.jpg

• Couper Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-204.jpg

• Clerk/Clark Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-180.jpg

• Crosbie / Crosby Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-181.jpg

• Cruikshank Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-182.jpg

D to F

• Donald Family (MacDonald) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-80.jpg

• Duncan Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-183.jpg

• Dundas Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-184.jpg

• Edmonstone Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-185.jpg

• Fotheringham Family (Clan Lindsay tartan) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-67.jpg

G to I

• Geddes Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-228.jpg

• Glover Family = (none currently registered)

• Hall Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-226.jpg

• Herries Family (Maxwell Clan tartan) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-124.jpg

• Hutton Family (Strathclyde District) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-186.jpg

J to L

• Lumsden Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-187.jpg

M

• MacBeth (MacBeath, McBeth) Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-188.jpg

• MacDonnell Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-199.jpg

• MacLaurin Family = see MacLaren Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-104.jpg

• MacMicking Family (Carrick District) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-235.jpg

• MacPhail Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-189.jpg

• Marshall Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-193.jpg

• Monteith / Mentieth Family (Graham of Menteith) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-232.jpg

• Mouat / Mowat Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-166.jpg

N to Q

• Ogg Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-194.jpg

R to T

• Ralston Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-190.jpg

• Russell Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-43.jpg

• Smith Family (Gow) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-195.jpg

• Spalding Family (Edinburgh District) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-73.jpg

• Steele Family (Gordon) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-44.jpg

• Straiton Family (Aberdeen District) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-198.jpg

• Tait Family = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-196.jpg

U to Z

Geographical and other Tartans

A

• Aberdeen District = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-198.jpg

• Ayrshire District = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-176.jpg

.

B

• Black Watch (Military) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-13.jpg

C

• Carrick District = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-235.jpg

D

• Dunbartonshire District = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-32.jpg

• Dumfries & Galloway District, "Solway Spirit" = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-239.jpg

E

• Edinburgh District = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-73.jpg

F

• Flower of Scotland = Clan_Tartans-190.jpg

• Fife District = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-203.jpg

G

• Gow Family (Smith) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-195.jpg

• Galloway District (Hunting) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-21.jpg

H

• Huntly District = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-241.jpg

J

• Jacobite 1715 = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-72.jpg

M

• MacDonald Lord of the Isles = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-81.jpg

• Montgomery / Montgomerie Alternate = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-230.jpg

P

• Paisley District = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-177.jpg

R

• Roxburgh District = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-141.jpg

S

• Strathclyde District = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-186.jpg

T

• Tweedside District = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-94.jpg