Buccleuch
In pattern RGRBRKR.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=411
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1831 — Buccleuch (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1831 — Buccleuch (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
R/14 G51 R5 P41 R5 K9 R/107

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| K | #000000 #000000 | K #000000 | 0.00 |
| P | #780078 #780078 | B #2C4084 | 0.16 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Buccleuch Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1505. Earliest known date: c.1840 Reduced 50% proportionally. Described by Wilson as a 'Fancy' pattern, taking inspiration from the works of Sir Walter Scott. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.56
- Plummer (Personal) — ΔT 0.75
- Buccleuch — ΔT 0.82
- Fraser (1745) — ΔT 1.00
- Leslie Red (VS) (Clan) — ΔT 1.01
- MacPhail Red Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1031. Earliest known date: 1930-50 This sample comes from the MacGregor-Hastie collection which forms the basis of the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. Some of the samples, including this one, were unmarked. One can assume that the sample dates between 1930 and 1950. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.01
- MacPhail — ΔT 1.02
- Chisholm D — ΔT 1.03
- Chisholm — ΔT 1.04
- Unidentified #20 — ΔT 1.06
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 15726 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /setts/s7/r107k9r5b41r5g51r14-b780078-g006818-k000000-rc80000/