Forfar Farmington
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 GBKBGKGGRGWG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1230
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2005 — Forfar Farmington (register-of-tartans, record)
A slight colour change of #5885 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) - Royal Army of Oman - by Arthur Mackie of Strathmore Woollen Co., Forfar. Difference restricted to the blue band with three lines - on #3588 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) the lines are red on black - here they're black and green on blue. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Archives. - 2005 — Forfar Farmington (Commemorative?) (tartans-authority, record)
A slight colour change of #5885 - Royal Army of Oman - by Arthur Mackie of Strathmore Woollen Co., Forfar. Difference restricted to the blue band with three lines - on #5885 the lines are red on black - here they're black and green on blue. Sample in STA Archives.
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
- 2005 (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: 1230
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6502
Thread count
DG/10 W6 DG30 R6 DG30 Y6 K20 DG38 DB6 K6 DB6 DG/6
One full sett is 324 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| 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) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/dg5w3dg15r3dg15y3k10dg19db3k3db3dg3~x2/