Morris of Balgonie Arisaid (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 WBWRWGWBWKWGY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3015
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1989 — Morris of Balgonie Arisaid (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
From a letter to Ruaridh MacLeod from Eugene Planck of Colorado dated 28 June 1989 and in the Scottish Tartans Authority archives (gifted by Jamie Scarlett MBE). Count was headed TECA. 'as supplied by the Much Honoured Raymond Morris of Balgonie and Eddergoll, 30th Laird of the Castle and Fortalice of Balgonie in the County of Fife and Laird of Eddergoll in the County of Perth; and by his son Struart G Morris of Balgonie, Younger, FSA (Scot). July 1989.' - 1989 — Morris of Balgonie Arisaid (Personal (tartans-authority, record)
From a letter to Ruaridh MacLeod from Eugene Planck of Colorado dated 28 June 1989 and in the STA archives (gifted by Jamie Scarlett). Count was headed TECA. " as supplied by the Much Honoured Raymond Morris of Balgonie and Eddergoll, 30th Laird of the Castle and Fortalice of Balgonie in the County of Fife and Laird of Eddergoll in the County of Perth; and by his son Struart G Morris of Balgonie, Younger, FSA (Scot). July 1989."
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
- 1989 (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: 3015
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5660
Thread count
LY/4 G20 W4 K6 W20 B6 W4 Gi6 W20 R6 W4 P20 W/4
One full sett is 240 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| B | #466CC8 #466CC8 | oklch(55.1% 0.149 265.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| G | #447438 #447438 | oklch(50.9% 0.104 139.6) |
| G | #007800 #007800 | oklch(49.6% 0.169 142.5) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| P | #AA2DBD #AA2DBD | oklch(55.0% 0.225 322.0) |
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/w2p10w2r3w10gi3w2b3w10k3w2g10ly2x2gi2007139-g2004144/