Mingulay (Fashion)
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 BBRBWBWRBRW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3475
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1986 A ladies skirt purchased in Scotland in 1986. Mingulay is the second most southern tiny island of Scotland's Outer Hebrides lying between Barra Head and Rosinish. Famous for the Mingulay Boat Song - a rowing shanty. Although this is just a fashion tartan, it conjures up evocative images for those who know the little island.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1986 — Mingulay (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
A ladies skirt purchased in Scotland in 1986. Mingulay is the second most southern tiny island of Scotland's Outer Hebrides lying between Barra Head and Rosinish. Famous for the Mingulay Boat Song - a rowing shanty. Although this is just a fashion tartan, it conjures up evocative images for those who know the little island. - 1986 — Mingulay District Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Mingulay (register-of-tartans, record)
A ladies skirt purchased in Scotland in 1986. Mingulay is the second most southern tiny island of Scotland's Outer Hebrides lying between Barra Head and Rosinish. Famous for the Mingulay Boat Song - a rowing shanty. Although this is just a fashion tartan, it conjures up evocative images for those who know the little island.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 1986 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 4872
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3475
Thread count
DB/180 N20 O4 DT4 LB4 DT4 LB20 O12 DT4 O8 LB/4
One full sett is 344 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| N | #5C5C5C #5C5C5C | oklch(47.5% 0.000 89.9) |
| O | #888888 #888888 | oklch(62.7% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s11/db45n5o1dt1lb1dt1lb5o3dt1o2lb1x4n1900000-o2500000/