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20 April 2024

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Tartan Details - Duchess of Kent

The information held within The Scottish Register of Tartans for the "Duchess of Kent" tartan is shown below.


STA ref:	1368
STWR ref:	1368
Designer:	Not Specified
Tartan date:	01/01/1930
Registration date:	This tartan was recorded prior to the launch of The Scottish Register of Tartans.
Category:	Fashion
Restrictions:
Registration notes:	Said to have been found in sample books - no further details. Listed by Harry Lindley as having been designed and woven in the 1930s. In the 20s and 30s it was fashionable to design new tartans and call them after members of the Royal family. Note the similarity to the Anderson tartan which may well suggest that Wm Andersons of Edinburgh (now Kinloch Anderson) had a hand in its design. Sindex notes say that this one is thought to be an erroneous setting of RGB:WGR because the original count was taken through glass and that the shade of green normally used is very dark and here has been mistaken for black. There is a woven sample in the Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection from the US Wee Shoppe dated 1986 and called the Duchess of Kent. The thread count here has been doubled for clarity and has been checked against the woven sample.

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