What are the steps of tartan selection?

You normally select a tartan fabric in a series of steps. (You may skip one or two.) These are:

1. Choose Family or Name
2. Choose Pattern or Sett
3. Choose Colourway
4. Choose Fabric

While browsing products on our site, we can highlight items made in a Selected tartan at any level. You can choose to see:

1. Products with tartans in your Family or Name
2. Products available in one Pattern or Sett of your Family Tartan
3. Products in fabrics of a particular Colourway
4. Products matching tartans in your specific Fabric

So if you are simply looking for any product as a gift for ‘Bill MacPherson’, it is best to choose the first, broader, match.

But if you have a kilt and need to order a skirt of fly plaid to match the same fabric from the same weaving mill, you should pick the fourth, most specific, match.