Murray-Hetherington (Personal) Name Tartan
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 GKGKRBKWKWKW.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=10700
Provenance
Earliest known date: 18 September 2012 After years of wearing the Murray of Atholl tartan, the registrant has chosen to register a tartan in his own name. He belongs to a family that has intermarried with the Murrays for many years and bears the additional surname of Murray. The underlying design of this personal tartan is based on details derived from the Blair Atholl tartan with due and proper differences to distinguish it. The colours used were specifically chosen to represent the colours found in the Murray of Atholl sett. The addition of three white stripes alludes to the three silver stars of the Murrays. The black and white also reflect the principal heraldic colours in the registrant's coat of arms granted to him by Garter King of Arms (England) and Norroy and Ulster King of Arms. The tartan, for the registrant, his immediate family, and their descendants to wear, maintains the strong link with the Murray Clan.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 18 September 2012 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
G/4 K4 G56 K8 R12 DB12 K24 W4 K4 W4 K4 W/4
One full sett is 272 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 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/s12/g1k1g14k2r3db3k6w1k1w1k1w1~x4/