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The earliest image of Scottish soldiers wearing tartan (belted plaids and trews); 1631 German engraving by Georg Köler.[a]Regimental tartans are tartan patterns used in military uniforms, possibly originally by some militias of Scottish clans, certainly later by some of the Independent Highland Companies (IHCs) raised by the British government, then by the Highland regiments and many Lowland ...
English: A tartan of 42nd Regiment of Foot (Black Watch), found in the 1785 records of Wilsons of Bannockburn and still in their Key Pattern Book of 1819, as "42nd Coarse Kilt with Red". It is believed to be the sett used for the regiment's small kilts while they were still also using the belted plaid (great kilt) for dress uniform.
English: The tartan officially named "Red MacDuff (Government No. 16)" by the UK Ministry of Defense, and used in some regimental attire (including cap cockade and bandsmen uniforms) of the 154 (Scottish) Regiment RLC (though it is no longer "funded" as part of the MoD uniform specs ). The 154th began as a Lowland regiment, and after ...
Tartan of the 74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot, mustered in 1787. It is the Black Watch tartan with a black-guarded white over-check added over the green. This version of the image is not just full-sett, and cannot tile horizontally or vertically; this centred and very slightly zoomed out version is for comparison with other regimental tartans ...
English: The "Prince Charles Edward Stuart" tartan, a variant of royal Stewart with a smaller proportion of red, and differing widths of thin over-checks. This version is in the palette used by 72nd Seaforth (Highland) Regiment of Foot, Duke of Albany's Own, for their uniform trews (1823–1881), with a comparatively pale blue and green, as shown in period art.
This image is not exactly full-sett, and cannot tile horizontally and vertically; this centred and zoomed-out version was created for tabular comparison to other regimental tartans. Scottish Register of Tartans notes on this pattern: "Details from a Wilsons’ Mss book in the library of the Museum of Antiquaries, Edinburgh. where it is labelled ...
This image is not exactly full-sett, and cannot tile horizontally and vertically; this centred and slightly zoomed-out version was created for tabular comparison to other regimental tartans. Scottish Register of Tartans notes on this pattern: "This is the correct version as detailed in 'Tartan: the Highland Textile' by Jamie Scarlett MBE page 109.
The same or a nearly identical tartan (perhaps with a different-width yellow over-check) was also used by the 8th (Rothesay & Caithness) Fencible Regiment. This image is not exactly full-sett, and cannot tile horizontally and vertically; this centred and very slightly zoomed-out version was created for tabular comparison to other regimental ...