Robertson 1819
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 RGRBRBRGRBRGR.
Part of the Robertson 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=3527
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1819 — Robertson 1819 (register-of-tartans, record)
1819 KPB. The entry in W and A Smith's 1850 publication 'Authenticated Tartans of the Clans & Families of Scotland' reads: 'We had our specimen from the Manufacturer: it has always been known as 'The Robertson,' and has been approved of by all the authorities to whom we have referred it.' The Scottish Tartans Society Sindex card gives a count of 8 for all the smaller lines instead of 6 as given here. Woven sample. The Robertsons, known as Clan Donnachaidh, are claimed to be descended from the Celtic Earls of Atholl. Wilson's sett uses purple in place of the blue recorded by James Logan in the 'Scottish Gael' (1831). Wilsons of Bannockburn a weaving firm founded c1770 near Stirling. The Pattern books are in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh. Copys of the Pattern books and letters in the Scottish Tartans Society archive. - 1819 — Robertson - 1819 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
1819 Key Pattern Book. The entry in Andrew & William Smith's 1850 publication 'Authenticated Tartans of the Clans & Families of Scotland' reads: "We had our specimen from the Manufacturer: it has always been known as 'The Roberston,' and has been approved of by all the authorities to whom we have referred it." The STS Sindex card gives a count of 8 for all the smaller lines instead of 6 as given here. Woven sample.
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
- 1819 (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: 3527
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1501
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1501
Thread count
R/6 G6 R70 DB6 R6 DB70 R6 G70 R6 DB6 R70 G6 R/6
One full sett is 656 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) |
| 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 1.29 — 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/r3g3r35db3r3db35r3g35r3db3r35g3r3~x2/