The Scottish Register of Tartans

8 December 2024
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Copyright

The Scottish Register of Tartans ('the Register')
Registrations since 5 Feb 2009

Registration text
The text has been created by the Keeper of the Register from information supplied by the applicant. This text is subject to Crown copyright. You may re-use the Crown copyright protected text free of charge in any format and for any purpose. The text must be acknowledged as Crown copyright and you must give the source as the Scottish Register of Tartans.

Registration image
The image is rendered by the Keeper of the Register from the threadcount supplied by the registrant. The image is subject to Crown copyright. You may re-use the Crown copyright protected image free of charge in any format for fair dealing purposes. The image must be acknowledged as Crown copyright and you must give the source as the Scottish Register of Tartans.

If you wish to re-use images for purposes other than fair dealing you should contact Online Resources at National Records of Scotland, email: [email protected]

Where the Keeper has been informed of registered design rights, this information is included in the Register entry. Prospective users should be aware that registered design rights may still apply even though they are not noted in the Register entry and they should therefore ascertain for themselves whether the design is registered anywhere in the world.

If a design is unregistered, design rights may still apply to the design.

For the UK, further information can be obtained from www.gov.uk/government/organisations/intellectual-property-office

Legacy tartans
Prior to the establishment of the Scottish Register of Tartans on 5 Feb 2009 there were two private registers operating in Scotland: the International Tartan Index of the Scottish Tartans Authority (STA) and the Scottish Tartans World Register (STWR). These have been included in the Register under Section 5(1) of the Scottish Register of Tartans Act 2008.

The text has been supplied to the Keeper of the Register by the STA and the STWR and prospective re-users of the text should contact the STA (www.tartansauthority.com).

The image is rendered by the Keeper of the Register from the threadcount supplied by the STA and the STWR. The image is subject to Crown copyright. You may re-use the Crown copyright protected image free of charge in any format for fair dealing purposes. The image must be acknowledged as Crown copyright and you must give the source as the Scottish Register of Tartans.

Prospective users should be aware that registered design rights may apply even though they are not noted in the Register entry, and they should therefore ascertain for themselves whether the design is registered anywhere in the world.

If a design is unregistered, design rights may still apply to the design.

For the UK, further information can be obtained from www.gov.uk/government/organisations/intellectual-property-office.

Database rights
Database rights in the Register rest with the Crown.

Web pages (not the Register)
This section refers to all website content other than the Register.

Text
Unless otherwise stated, the text on this website is subject to Crown copyright. You may re-use the Crown copyright protected material (not including the Royal Arms and other departmental or agency logos) free of charge in any format. The material must be acknowledged as Crown copyright and you must give the title of the source document/publication.

The Keeper of the Scottish Register of Tartans and the National Records of Scotland encourages users to establish hypertext links to this website.

Images

Rolling images on Homepage

The following rolling images are from the ScotlandsPeople website:

1. Planning for battle, 1942
2. Miners and piper, Monktonhall Colliery, c 1980
3. Relic of the '45
4. The Breadalbane Highlanders
5. Comic postcard of a boy in Highland dress

If you wish to re-use these images you will need to purchase them from the ScotlandsPeople website.

The following rolling images have are from the Scottish Register of Tartans website and subject to crown copyright

1. Baird - https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails?ref=169
2. Campbell - https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails?ref=502
3. Douglas - https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails?ref=4695
4. Stewart, Royal - https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails?ref=3958
5. MacGregor - https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails?ref=2449

Static images
All other images on the website are subject to Crown copyright. You may re-use the Crown copyright protected material (not including the Royal Arms and other departmental or agency logos) free of charge in any format. The material must be acknowledged as Crown copyright and you must give the title of the source document/publication.