Riddoch (Name)
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 BKBKBKRGRKBKB.
Part of the Riddoch tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3316
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1992 Designed by Tony Murray for an Albert (Bert) Riddoch of Bearsden, Glasgow as a personal tartan initially but it was then changed to usage by anyone of the name. Bert Riddoch (2002) is a private investigator involved in covert drugs investigations and 'highly thought of by the police'. Tartan based on Campbell of Breadalbane.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1992 — Riddoch (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Tony Murray for an Albert (Bert) Riddoch of Bearsden, Glasgow as a personal tartan initially but it was then changed to usage by anyone of the name. Bert Riddoch (2002) is a private investigator involved in covert drugs investigations and 'highly thought of by the police'. Tartan based on Campbell of Breadalbane. Design too close to Fletcher 919840 #224. - 1992 — Riddoch Name Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 1992 (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 Tartans Authority (ITI): 3316
Thread count
DB/32 K4 DB4 K4 DB4 K32 R4 G56 R4 K32 DB32 K4 DB/4
One full sett is 396 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.05 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/s13/db8k1db1k1db1k8r1g14r1k8db8k1db1~x4/