Donachie of Brockloch
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 BGBGBGBGBG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=948
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/11/2003 — Donachie of Brockloch (register-of-tartans, record)
For the use of the Laird of Brockloch, his family, all those of the name of Donachie (and variants) and also anybody with an association with the Lairdship of Brockloch, Kirkcubrightshire. This, a modified version of the clan Donnachaidh tartan Scottish Tartrans World Register reference #893. D.C. Stewart wrote, "a fragment of which now belongs to the Clan Donnachaidh Society and is given the name Robertson. The plaid of which it was part is said to have been presented by the Prince to a member of the Robertson clan during the '45." (The Setts of the Scottish Tartans 1950.) - pre 2005 — Donachie of Brockloch (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
This is a modification of the Clan Donnachaidh tartan designed for the use of the Laird of Brockloch, his family and all of the name and its spelling variants. (STWR). www.donachiesociety.co.uk Woven by D C Dalgliesh of Selkirk. Note: It is such a slight modification of the Donachie (6138) that the STA would not have accepted it as a different tartan had it been approached to register it.
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
- 01/11/2003 (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: 948
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6702
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2978
Thread count
DR/48 G4 DR4 G40 DR50 G4 DR4 G4 DR4 G/40
One full sett is 316 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
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/dr24g2dr2g20dr25g2dr2g2dr2g20~x2/