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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

Historical Clan Tartans

A to C

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 (Dress 1880) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-17.jpg
  • Cathcart (Paisley District) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-177.jpg
  • Chattan = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-19.jpg
  • Chisholm = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-20.jpg
  • Cochrane = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-110.jpg
  • Cockburn = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-211.jpg
  • Colville (Ayrshire District) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-176.jpg
  • Craig = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-23.jpg
  • Crawford = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-26.jpg
  • Crichton (Edinburgh District) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-73.jpg

D to F

  • Davidson = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-28.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
  • Erskine = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-98.jpg
  • Ewing = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-213.jpg
  • Fleming (Murray of Atholl) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-173.jpg
  • Forbes = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-39.jpg
  • Fraser = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-41.jpg

G to I

  • Gibsone/Gibbs/Gibson = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-215.jpg
  • Gordon = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-44.jpg
  • Graham = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-45.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
  • 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

  • Keith = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-60.jpg
  • Kennedy = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-61.jpg
  • Kerr = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-62.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

  • MacAulay = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-76.jpg
  • MacBain / MacBean = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-77.jpg
  • MacDuff = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-100.jpg
  • MacEwen = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-227.jpg
  • MacFie = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-85.jpg
  • MacInnes = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-222.jpg
  • MacIver = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-89.jpg
  • MacKay = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-90.jpg
  • MacKinnon (Hunting) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-101.jpg
  • MacKie = (none currently registered)
  • MacLaren = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-104.jpg
  • MacLea = see Livingstone Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-69.jpg
  • MacLean = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-105.jpg
  • MacLeod = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-108.jpg
  • MacMillan (Ancient) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-109.jpg
  • MacNab = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-111.jpg
  • MacNeil (Dress) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-113.jpg
  • MacQueen = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-117.jpg
  • MacRae = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-118.jpg
  • Makgill = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-121.jpg
  • Malcolm = see MacCallum Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-78.jpg
  • Mar (Dress) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-122.jpg
  • Maxwell = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-124.jpg
  • Melville = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-125.jpg
  • Menzies = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-200.jpg
  • Morrison = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-130.jpg
  • Muir = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-131.jpg
  • Munro = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-132.jpg

N to P

  • Napier = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-133.jpg
  • Nairn = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-236.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
  • Ruthven = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-145.jpg
  • Scott = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-146.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
  • Spens (Spence) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-153.jpg
  • Stewart = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-155.jpg
  • Stirling = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-157.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

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

D to F

G to I

  • Glover Family = (none currently registered)
  • Herries Family (Maxwell Clan tartan) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-124.jpg
  • Hutton Family (Strathclyde District) = Scotland_-_Clan_Tartans-186.jpg

J to L

M

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

N to Q

R to T

U to Z

Geographical and other Tartans

A

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B

C

D

E

F

G

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

H

J

M

P

R

S

T





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