Can you identify this tartan?

**ShaunMaxwell** · 9th April 19, 06:10 AM

I was chatting with a member of a pipe band at the recent Sherman Celtic Festival, and asked him the name of the tartan used for their kilts. He told me he didn’t know and when he’d asked others in the band, no one seemed to recall.

I took a quick photo and told him someone on this forum would surely know.

Here’s the tartan:

Please enlighten me!

Thanks,

SM

**Highland Logan** · 9th April 19, 07:23 AM

Originally Posted by ShaunMaxwell

I was chatting with a member of a pipe band at the recent Sherman Celtic Festival, and asked him the name of the tartan used for their kilts. He told me he didn’t know and when he’d asked others in the band, no one seemed to recall.

I took a quick photo and told him someone on this forum would surely know.

Here’s the tartan:

Please enlighten me!

Thanks,

SM

No photo

Frank

**ctbuchanan** · 9th April 19, 07:37 AM

I see the photo. Sorry I don't know the tartan.

But I find it somehow perplexing that a pipe band doesn't know the tartan they are wearing

**ShaunMaxwell** · 9th April 19, 08:16 AM

Originally Posted by ctbuchanan

I find it somehow perplexing that a pipe band doesn't know the tartan they are wearing

Yeah, I thought that seemed odd as well. Maybe it was just one guy he asked... Who knows?

Thanks,

SM

**figheadair** · 9th April 19, 08:23 AM

It's a setting the Earl of Inverness tartan - http://www.scottishtartans.co.uk/Earl_of_Inverness.pdf

**TKE443** · 9th April 19, 08:39 AM

I believe this is Earl of Inverness, although the yellow stripes in this example look more green than yellow.

**ShaunMaxwell** · 9th April 19, 08:42 AM

Originally Posted by figheadair

It's a setting the Earl of Inverness tartan - http://www.scottishtartans.co.uk/Earl_of_Inverness.pdf

Thanks figheadair! I felt certain you'd be the person who'd know.

SM

**Garth** · 9th April 19, 05:52 PM

Figheadair you are the man. Thank's too for the detailed info that you supplied.

**Katia** · 14th April 19, 07:04 PM

Originally Posted by ctbuchanan

I see the photo. Sorry I don't know the tartan.

But I find it somehow perplexing that a pipe band doesn't know the tartan they are wearing

I would ascribe this either to older kilts (as in, whoever ordered them is no longer with the band and the knowledge of the tartan name was not passed down), or secondhand kilts (they may not have been told by the previous owner what the tartan was, or the previous owner may have even not known). I assume they're not concerned about possible future replacement of individual pieces?