Donachie
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 GRGRGRGRGR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=947
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2004 A new tartan, a simplified sett based on the #893 Robertson tartan once presented by the Jacobite Prince to a Robertson during the '45.'' (The Setts of the Scottish Tartans, D.C. Stewart, 1950.) The Donachie of Brockloch Society have adopted this tartan.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2004 — Donachie (register-of-tartans, record)
Based on the sett of which D.C. Stewart wrote (#893, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference), ''..a fragment of which now belongs to the Clan Donnachaidh Society, is given the name Robertson. The plaid of which it was part, is said to have been presented by the Prince to a Robertson during the '45.'' (The Setts of the Scottish Tartans 1950.) The Donachie sept have adopted this variation. Woven sample. - 2004 — Donachie Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 2004 (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: 947
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6138
Thread count
R/48 G4 R4 G80 R50 G4 R4 G4 R4 G/40
One full sett is 396 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| 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/r24g2r2g40r25g2r2g2r2g20~x2/