The tartan of the 93rd Regiment of Foot (Sutherland Highlanders), and later of the Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's). It is Black Watch with proportions slightly changed and the dark "standard tartan blue" replaced by lighter Balmoral blue. Note: Reliable sources conflict when it comes to this tartan; both the Scottish Register of Tartans (record no. 5128 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails?ref=5128">[1]</a>), and James D. Scarlett in <i>Tartan: The Highland Textile</i> (1990, p. 31), citing also Robert Bain's <i>The Clans and Tartans of Scotland</i> (1953 ed.) suggest that this lightened form of Black Watch tartan was specifically for the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders (later Prince Louise's Argyll &amp; Sutherland Highlanders, after amalgamation). On the other hand, Peter E. MacDonald's <i>The 1819 Key Pattern Book: One Hundred Original Tartans</i> (1997, at "Sutherland or 42nd" entry) indicates that it was simply Black Watch (also named Sutherland) as made it at a particular point in time by William Wilson &amp; Son of Bannockburn, the supplier of most regiments' tartan cloth – i.e. that all units including Sutherland that were wearing Black Watch were wearing the same cloth at any given period, and that this is not a special Sutherland tartan variant.
This image is <strong>not</strong> exactly full-sett, and <em>cannot</em> tile horizontally and vertically; this centred and very slightly zoomed-out version was created for tabular comparison to other regimental tartans. Scottish Register of Tartans notes on this pattern: "Threadcount taken from the 1819 Key Pattern Book belonging to William Wilson of Bannockburn, weavers. this sett is worn by the Argyll &amp; Sutherland Highlanders. The earliest known date recorded here is from the Wilsons of Bannockburn letters and was recorded by DC Stewart." SRT mis-listed it as "42nd Regiment", so it was hard to find. This is a usual, mirroring tartan. SRT-provided thread count (in "/" notation): /AB32 K6 AB6 K6 AB6 K32 G30 K6 G30 K32 AB30 K6 AB6/ (or in boldfacing notation: <b>AB</b>32 K6 AB6 K6 AB6 K32 G30 K6 G30 K32 AB30 K6 <b>AB</b>6), where AB = Balmoral blue.
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2023-06-21
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