Robertson - 1746 (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 GRGRGRGRGRGRGR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=893
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 1745 — Robertson - 1746 (Artefact) (tartans-authority, record)
D.C.Stewart wrote, ''..a fragment of which now belongs to the Clan Donnachaidh Society, is given the name Robertson. The plaid of which it was part is said to have been presented by the Prince to a Robertson during the '45.'' (The Setts of the Scottish Tartans 1950.) Sindex notes say from the Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh. Setts No. 254. Suspect that the original is actually a section from the culloden plaid. Ses - #4278. PEM - undated — Robertson #2 (register-of-tartans, record)
D.C. Stewart wrote, "a fragment of which now belongs to the Clan Donnachaidh Society, is given the name Robertson. The plaid of which it was part is said to have been presented by the Prince to a Robertson during the '45." (The Setts of the Scottish Tartans 1950) - undated — Robertson 2 (weddslist, record)
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
- pre 1745 (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: 3523
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 893
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 893
Thread count
G/30 R2 G2 R2 G2 R36 G48 R2 G2 R36 G2 R2 G2 R/6
One full sett is 312 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| 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/s14/g15r1g1r1g1r18g24r1g1r18g1r1g1r3~x2/