Aberdeen (District) Tartan
- Name of Tartan:
- Aberdeen (District)
- ITI Number:
- 1801
- Category:
- District
- Designer / Source:
- Wilsons of Bannockburn
- Date:
- pre 1782
- Slog:
- WRR:WGK
- Colour Sequence:
- WRRWKGWRRWRRWBWBRRWRRBWKGKWBRRWRRBWBBWBBWKGW
- Thread Count:
- WW2 CLR3 XR23 WW2 K16 DOG4 WW1 XR6 CLR3 WW1 CLR3 XR6 WW1 LSB10 WW2 DP3 XR8 CLR3 WW2 CLR3 XR8 DP3 WW2 K12 DOG4 K12 WW2 DP3 XR8 CLR3 WW2 CLR3 XR8 DP3 WW2 DP6 LSB4 WW2 LSB4 DP6 WW2 K16 DOG4 WW2
- Notes:
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This is said to be one of the oldest of the tartans produced by Wilsons of Bannockburn and mentioned in an order to them in June 1794 although by their reckoning they produced it during the days of prohibition between 1746 and 1782. A comment in their 1819 pattern book says; "This pattern was made and named after the city of Aberdeen about the middle of the 18th century (only a supposition of N.Wilson Jnr)"
See also ‘Bon Accord’ This is from the Wilson threadcount as documented in James Scarlett’s "Tartan the Highland Textile" (1990). The count was taken from a manuscript account book in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland in Queen Street, Edinburgh.
