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18 April 2024

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Tartan Details - Muirhead

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


STA ref:	3099
STWR ref:	none
Designer:	Not Specified
Tartan date:	Not Specified
Registration date:	This tartan was recorded prior to the launch of The Scottish Register of Tartans.
Category:	Clan/Family
Restrictions:
Registration notes:	#6001 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) is the correct sett of the original tartan named as 'Muirhead' and its threadcount came from Matt Newsome of the Tartans Museum in Franklin who took it from the woven article. The Muirhead website (www.clanmuirhead.com) shows a slightly different version of this 'original' sett where the yellow is centred on a darker brown square within the lighter brown. That's thought to be an error in recreating the 'ancient' sett by adapting/copying a modern weaving of the tartan (D.C. Dalgliesh of Selkirk) in its unfaded colours which was in itself inaccurate. That's the version shown here. Somehow an extra green block (G18) had been inserted into the threadcount in one area and a G3 omitted in another. The tartan came from the kilt outfit donated to the Scottish Tartans Museum in Franklin, North Carolina on 16th October 2003 by Frances Swanson. The kilt had been seen back in the 1980s but had disappeared from sight and there was confusion over the count and the colours at the time. This erroneous version of the unfaded tartan shown here now seems to have been accepted as the clan tartan. The threadcount came from Phil Smith who took it from a Dalgiesh woven sample.

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