Mair Family 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 RBRGWRBRGGGR.
Part of the Mair tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
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=1406
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1985 Based on an unnamed tartan from South Uist, the yellow represents the gold and red of the original sett form the colours of the 'Mair' coat of arms registered with Lord Lyon. Head of the family, Duine Usail, Robert George Alexander Mair esq. F.S.A. Scot, Sunshine, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is the son of Alexander Smith Mair who arrived in Australia in 1924 from Govan, Glasgow.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1985 — Mair Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 01/01/1986 — Mair (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Based on an unnamed tartan from South Uist, the yellow represents the gold and red of the original sett from the colours of the 'Mair' coat of arms registered with Lord Lyon. Head of the family, Duine Usail, Robert George Alexander Mair Esq. F.S.A. Scot, Sunshine, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is the son of Alexander Smith Mair who arrived in Australia in 1924 from Govan, Glasgow. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Collection. D.C. Stewart's Nomindex notes 'Said to be his last design before leaving the Tartans Society.' Previous threadcount altered March 2005 to accord with Scottish Tartans Society count (Scottish Tartans Authority). - undated — Mair (weddslist, record)
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
- 1985 (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
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2789
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1406
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1406
Thread count
R/46 G6 Y2 G6 R4 DB36 R4 W2 G6 R4 DB4 R/46
One full sett is 240 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) |
| 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/r23g3y1g3r2db18r2w1g3r2db2r23~x2/