Forbes of Druminnor Artifact Tartan
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 BYBBGGBWBGBBYBYB.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 16 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=592
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1968 Inspired by an old rug belonging to Hon. Peggy Forbes Semphill. A sample was woven by A Stewart while acting as Director of Research at the Scottish Tartans Society in 1968.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1968 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
DB/12 LY4 DB4 LY4 DB4 DO12 G16 DO2 W4 DO2 G16 DY4 DO8 DB16 LY4 DB/4
One full sett is 216 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DO | #412714 #412714 | oklch(30.1% 0.050 55.7) |
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/s16/db6ly2db2ly2db2do6g8do1w2do1g8dy2do4db8ly2db2~x2/