Little of Morton Rigg
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 KWKWKBKBKY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2127
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1991 — Little of Morton Rigg (register-of-tartans, record)
Design incorporates traditional black and white livery colours of the Border Littles, and the Wallace tartan with red (maroon). Edward Litill 1296 was a nephew of Wallace and fought alongside him. A tartan solely for members of Clan Little Society (Scotland and Worldwide), or by written permission from the Dr J.C. Little of Morton Rig, the designer (1991). This is not a clan but a family Assocation Tartan. - 1991 — Little of Morton Rigg (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed in 1991 by Dr. J.C. Little of Morton Rigg, Dumfries, for the newly organized Clan Little Society. Registered with TECA 12 June1992. Incorporates elements of the Wallace and Shepherd setts. from Pat Little (USA) via JCT. Sample in STA's Johnston Collection. Jan Crook records have this designed by A. Paterson Little.
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
- 1991 (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: 2127
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2349
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2349
Thread count
K/16 W16 K16 W16 K16 DR32 K8 DR32 K32 LO/4
One full sett is 356 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/k4w4k4w4k4dr8k2dr8k8lo1~x4/