Brown of Castledean (Artefact)
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 BRBWKWKYKGRKRW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3738
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1728 — Brown of Castledean (Artefact) (tartans-authority, record)
Labeled as Brown of Castledean... 1728. Lady found it in her great-g-fathers trunk, Thos. Brown, born 1728 in Castledean... information 1993 from Ingles Buchan (Textiles) who obtained it from a batch of literature received from Blair Urquhart via STS files. The design is a modification of Royal Stewart. Tartan Society entry at #1145 "A piece of plaid owned by Mme. Rolland de Maubeuge which belonged to her great grandfather Thomas Brown born 1786 at Castlehaven. Source said to be the highly dubious Cromarty Manuscript." Castle Haven is just south of Stonehaven whereas there doesn't appear to be a Castledean in Scotland. 1145 has a dark green band in the red whereas 3738 has a blue. Not known which is right. - undated — Brown of Castledean (register-of-tartans, record)
Labeled as Brown of Castledean, 1728. Lady found in her great-g-fathers trunk, Thos. Brown, born 1728 in Castledean, information 1993 from Ingles Buchan (Textiles) who obtained from batch of literature received from Blair Urquhart via Scottish Tartan Society files. Modification of Stewart. Scottish Tartan Society entry at #1145 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference): 'A piece of plaid owned by Mme. Rolland de Maubeuge which belonged to her great grandfather Thomas Brown born 1786 at Castlehaven. Source said to be the highly dubious Cromarty Manuscript.' Castle Haven is just south of Stonehaven whereas there doesn't appear to be a Castledean in Scotland. #1145 has a dark green band in the red whereas #3738 has a blue. Not known which is right. (Original Scottish Tartans Authority references)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 1728 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5130
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3738
Thread count
DB/24 R60 DB4 LB4 K16 LB4 K8 LY4 K8 DG30 R16 K4 R8 LB/4
One full sett is 360 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
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/s14/db12r30db2lb2k8lb2k4ly2k4dg15r8k2r4lb2~x2/