district tartans

[Kilted Craanen]

Yep, noticed that one already. I also went through all the clan and district tartans on the website of the scottish tartans authority (roughly 200 internet pages, fml) and found in the descriptions of some that there were district tartans, that more or less functioned as clan tartans as well for a few clans. (macdonald, sutherland..) but were not exclusive to that clan or region, simply more common.

[figheadair]

Well, all of them really, but I can represent them all separately (I can tell one regiment to stop existing at some point and then another regiment to start existing, so in that way I can switch between tartans if needed).

edit: did regiments such as Argyll's Regiment of Foot (yes I know they were lowland-garb wearing but they wore tartan sashes) or the Atholl Brigade have their own tartan?

Tartan sashes? That I doubt but narrow plaids perhaps.

The simple answer that we just don't know for certain but in my opinion it's unlikely that there would have been uniformity across a whole Highland regiment let alone a Brigade that comprised more that one clan. There are references to Locheil having ordered plaids for his regiment from a weaver/merchant in the Lowlands but we know nothing of the detail nor if it was the same tartan and for all of the regiment. In most cases the individual would have turned up in what he had and the gentry would undoubtedly have had finer clothes and usually wore tartans with more red in them because they could afford to them. It's possible that the likes of Locheil ordered plaids to cloth some of his poorer clansmen whose own clothing may well have been little more than rags and not fit to campaign in.

Yep, noticed that one already. I also went through all the clan and district tartans on the website of the scottish tartans authority (roughly 200 internet pages, fml) and found in the descriptions of some that there were district tartans, that more or less functioned as clan tartans as well for a few clans. (macdonald, sutherland..) but were not exclusive to that clan or region, simply more common.

If you are interested in historical accuracy then this is where you need to be careful as most of those 'district' tartans did not exist in the mid-C18th.