Chisholm Colonial
This is one variant — a specific cloth: this exact thread count and colourway, with its own provenance below. It is one weaving of the sett (the scale-free proportion — the same cloth at any scale or shade), whose colour order is pattern BWYGBGBGBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5756
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 22/01/2008 — Chisholm Colonial (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Kat Moore from Kansas, who is a twelfth generation Chisholm of her American-Scots line. Her rationale for the tartan is as follows: "In order to begin a new life in distant lands, ocean crossings had to be made for most of our families. The blues are representative of the oceans. The brown literally represents the earth of the lands colonized. The Chisholm badge is the fern. The fern green represents our ties to our clan and to Scotland. The blood red represents the blood that all Chisholms, worldwide, share by birth and heritage." Approved(September 2008) by Chief Hamish Chisholm of Chishom. Woven by D C Dalgliesh, and organised through Duncan Chisholm & Sons Ltd, of Inverness. - Sep. 2008 — Chisholm Colonial 2008 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by 'Kat' Moore from Kansas who is a 12th generation Chisholm of her American-Scots line. Her rationale for the tartan was: "In order to begin a new life in distant lands, ocean crossings had to be made for most of our families and those oceans are represented by the blues in this tartan. Brown is for the lands that were colonized and green is from the fern in the Clan Chisholm badge and represents our ties to our clan and Scotland. The blood red is for the blood that all Chisholms, worldwide, share by birth and heritage." Approved (September 2008) by the Clan Chief. Woven by D C Dalgliesh and organised through Duncan Chisholm & Sons Ltd., of Inverness.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Register of Tartans
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/register-of-tartans/data.csv
- data date
- 22/01/2008 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - thetartan/tartan-database 2016-2017 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Levko Kravets's frozen compilation — the capture we vendored, and where its CC licence text came from - this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 5756
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7791
Thread count
DB/12 W2 LY48 G12 DT6 G2 DT6 G2 DT24 R/2
One full sett is 218 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #003C64 #003C64 | oklch(34.5% 0.089 246.0) |
| DT | #0C585C #0C585C | oklch(42.0% 0.068 200.5) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartan variants
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 13621 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (42% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /variants/s10/db6w1ly24g6dt3g1dt3g1dt12r1x2db1404245-dt1703208/