Urquhart (White Line)
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 BWBKBKBKGKGR.
Part of the Urquhart tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4430
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1842 — Urquhart (White Line) (register-of-tartans, record)
Threadcount recorded by Kenneth Urquhart of Urquhart, Chief of the Urquharts, in the Lyon Court Books (writs section), 76, 14 October 1991. Sometimes called Urquhart Old or Ancient which are both misnomers since this designer is more recent than the Urquhart (SRT #4431). - 1842 — Urquhart - 1842 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Green lightened to show sett. Tartan Society notes say it is interesting to note that much of the forged sixteenth century manuscript on which the Vestiarium Scoticum was based was supposedly transcribed by Sir Richard Urquhart in 1721. Sample in Paton's collection. The Setts No: 249. Innes No 110. W & A K Johnston, 1906. Sometimes called Urquhart Old or Ancient but both are misnomers since this is younger than #1086. - undated — Urquhart (weddslist, 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
- 1842 (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: 4430
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 623
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 623
Thread count
DB/8 W4 DB48 K6 DB6 K6 DB16 K48 G96 K6 G6 R/4
One full sett is 496 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s12/db4w2db24k3db3k3db8k24g48k3g3r2~x2/