Baron of Greencastle (Personal)

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 GGGBKBKBKBWBW.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=220

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/08/2002 — Baron of Greencastle (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
    The three Baron of Greencastle tartans were designed by Stephen de Albergaria of Paris and celebrate his Sutherland forebears. His father was John Elliot Sutherland, his great-grandfather was John Duffus Sutherland and his great-great-grandfather was John Sinclair Sutherland. Through his mother, Stephen has taken as a surname the 12th century name of Albergaria from Portugal. He has arms matriculated in Scotland and Spain. His full name is Stephen Teixeira de Albergaria, Baron of Greencastle.
  • pre 2005 — Baron of Greencastle (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
    The three Baron of Greencastle tartans (6196, 6667, 6668) were designed by Stepehen de Albergaria of Paris and celebrate his Sutherland forebears. His father was John Elliot Sutherland, his g-grandfather John Duffus Sutherland and his g-g-grandfather John Sinclair Sutherland. His mother carried the ancient XIIth century noble family name from Portugal of Albergaria which Stephen has adopted as a family surname. He also has arms matriculated in Scotland and Spain. His full name is Stephen Teixeira de Albergaria Baron of Greencastle. Tartan obtained via Niall Hamilton.
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
01/08/2002 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

G/8 Y4 G48 DR4 K24 DB6 K4 DB4 K4 DB24 W2 DB2 W/6

One full sett is 266 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
DR#55120C #55120Coklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
LO#FF9C34 #FF9C34oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

G/8 Y4 G48 DR4 K24 DB6 K4 DB4 K4 DB24 W2 DB2 W/6 tartan

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.

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