Caledonian Cameron Commando
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 RWKWKWKYGRKRWR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=472
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1818 — Caledonian Cameron Commando (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan appears to have been a sett woven by Wilsons of Bannockburn and may be referred to in a letter of 29 June 1818. Wilsons of Bannockburn a weaving firm founded c1770 near Stirling. The tartan was adopted in 1998 by the Caledonian Cameron Commando of France as their unit tartan, to commemorate their links to Scotland during the war. - 1818 — Caledonian Cameron Commando (Corp) (tartans-authority, record)
See Wilson letter 29-6-1818 for possible origin to this sett (sindex). Adopted in 1998 by the Caledonian Cameron Commando of France as their unit tartan in commemoration of their links to Scotland during the war. KPB Page 157
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
- 1818 (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: 472
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5598
Thread count
R/42 LT18 K4 LT4 K4 LT18 K36 LY6 G42 R26 K6 R26 W4 R/26
One full sett is 456 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LT | #64D1D9 #64D1D9 | oklch(80.0% 0.100 201.8) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/r21lt9k2lt2k2lt9k18ly3g21r13k3r13w2r13~x2/