Grant of Monymusk
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 RGRGRGRBRKRGR.
Part of the Grant of Monymusk tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1509
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1810-15 An old tartan in the Cockburn Collection housed in the Mitchell Library in Glasgow. D.C.Stewart comments that it is made up of elements of the Huntly group of tartans.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1810 — Grant of Monymusk (register-of-tartans, record)
The Grant of Monymusk tartan is included in the Cockburn collection. The Cockburn collection consists of woven tartan samples collected by General Sir William Cockburn between 1810 and 1820. The samples were probably woven by William Wilson and Sons of Bannockburn specifically for the General. The collection is preserved in the Mitchell Library in Glasgow. - 1810 — Grant of Monymusk - 1810 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
From the Cockburn collection ca. 1810 via Peter MacDonald. See also D.C.Stewart version -#1495 - Grant of Monymusk (DCS). PM says this is the correct version and DCS's 1495 is in error. - 1810-15 — Grant of Monymusk Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Grant of Monymusk (weddslist, record)
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
- 1810 (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: 1509
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1497
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1497
Thread count
R/24 G32 R6 G32 R6 G32 R8 DB32 R10 K18 R24 G6 R/24
One full sett is 460 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) |
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/s13/r12g16r3g16r3g16r4db16r5k9r12g3r12~x2/