Colquhoun tartan
Clan tartan of Clan Colquhoun.
The Sobieski brothers presented this sett as an ancient pattern in their nineteenth-century Vestiarium Scoticum, but the claim has not held up well. The design is very close to one printed eleven years earlier, in 1831, in The Scottish Gael, and its small differences look more like a copying error, or a deliberate change made to give the pattern an air of mystery, than evidence of real age.
Thread count
B/8 K4 B32 W2 K16 G48 R/8Each letter is a colour and each number a count of threads. The slashes mark the pivots: the pattern runs to the end, then reverses back on itself.
Colours
- B — Blue
- K — Black
- W — White
- G — Mod Green
- R — Red
Shades follow the Register's palette for this entry. Woven cloth varies by mill and by colourway.
Get the kilt
When you order a kilt, ask for the tartan by its full name — for example “Colquhoun” — and say which colourway you want. “Modern” is dark and strong, “ancient” is lighter, “weathered” is muted. The sett is the same in each.
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Wear the colours
Our own Colquhoun range is on its way: the name, the tartan and the motto on a heavyweight tee, a hoodie and a mug. About the shop.
