Buchanan (Logan)
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 WGKWKGKGKWKRW.
Part of the Buchanan 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=421
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- undated — Buchanan (Logan) (register-of-tartans, record)
Also Thomas Smibert 'The Clans of the Highlands of Scotland' 1850 plate No 8. Wilson's comment on this sett in Logan's 'The Scottish Gael' was, "The scale given of this tartan is very defective - a correct one is given - note this pattern is...(the sentence stops)". One might assume that the last word should be 'asymmetrical'. The correct one given is not present but a Wilson sample of the period is very similar to the one listed in this database, attributed to McIan. Wilsons of Bannockburn a weaving firm founded c1770 near Stirling. - undated — Buchanan 5 (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
- 2017-01-06 (dataset default)
- 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: 421
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 171
Thread count
LB/8 DG64 K4 LB8 K4 Y16 K4 Y16 K4 LB8 K4 R64 W/8
One full sett is 408 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/w2r16k1lb2k1y4k1y4k1lb2k1dg16lb2~x4/