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• Name of Tartan:

  Rose - 1842 (VS Plate) Clan)

• Alternative Name: Rose Dress
• ITI Number: 845
• Category: Clan/Family
• Designer / Source: Vestiarium Scoticum
• Date: 1842

• Slog: GRB:WRB
• Colour Sequence: GRBRBRBRW
• Thread Count: Available to STA members only
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• Notes: The text of the Vestiarium gives the colours as purple and crimson but in the plate they appear as mid blue and scarlet. The Lord Lyon records crimson as red. D.C. Stewart regarded this sett as a 'dress' tartan. ('The Setts..' 1950) James Logan records a 'hunting' version. ('The Scottish Gael' 1831). The following is throught to have come from a letter to Wilsons circa 1822 from a merchant: "Please send me a piece of Rose tartan, and if there isn't one, please send me a different pattern and call it Rose." In other words the clan tartan system just developed. The castle of Kilravock which has been the residence of the Roses for over five centuries is still the seat of the chief. In Lord Lyon's Public Register of all Arms & Bearings in Scotland 36/8 dated 10th November 1946. Count LG1 R14 B3 R2 1/2 B1 R1 B1 R 5 1/2 W1. It is reported that "By the time King George IV came to Edinburgh In 1822, everyone was wanting a clan tartan. One merchant wrote: "Please send me a piece of Rose tartan, and if there isn't one, please send me a different pattern and call it Rose."

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