Grant (Vestiarium Scoticum)
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 RBRBRBRGRGRGR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1510
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1842 — Grant (Vestiarium Scoticum) (register-of-tartans, record)
The tartan recorded as 'Grant' in the 'Vestiarium Scoticum' (Edinburgh, 1842) by John Sobieski Stolberg Stuart and Charles Edward Stuart (also known as John Carter Allen and Charles Manning Allen, or John and Charles Hay Allen). The Vestiarium Grant sett omits the azure lines of the standard Clan Grant tartan. This tartan has been erroneously called 'Grant of Rothiemurchus' in the past. - undated — Grant of Rothiemurchus (weddslist, record)
- undated — Grant VS (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
- 1842 (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: 1510
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1399
Thread count
R/8 DB4 R4 DB4 R112 DB32 R8 G2 R8 G72 R6 G2 R/8
One full sett is 524 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
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/r4db2r2db2r56db16r4g1r4g36r3g1r4~x2/