Innes (Seven colours) (Clan)
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 WKRKRKRGRBRKGKRW.
Part of the Innes tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 16 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=361
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1938 D C Stewart says, "Within recent years this sett has been accepted as the tartan appropriate to the Inneses of the Moray district.." Sir Thomas Innes of Learney was Lord Lyon, King of Arms, 1945 - 69. His younger son, Malcolm Innes of Edingight, became Lord Lyon in 1981. This sett is included in the 'Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland' (1938) prior to Sir Thomas's appointment.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 1938 — Innes (Seven colours) (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
This is the count (multiplied by 4) as entered with Lord Lyon 30th August 1951. It has seven colours which have been reduced to six in #1109 by replacing the azure shown here with black, The Lyon Book count used the code Vt which it is assumed represents green. D C Stewart says, ''Within recent years this sett has been accepted as the tartan appropriate to the Inneses of the Moray district..'' Sir Thomas Innes of Learney was Lord Lyon, King of Arms, 1945 - 69. His younger son, Malcolm Innes of Edingight, became Lord Lyon in 1981. This sett is included in the 'Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland' (1938) prior to Sir Thomas's appointment. SINDEX card notes: 'NOT MACInnes - according to the Lord Lyon, Sir Thomas Innes of Learney, in a discussion with STS officials on 12th January 1966. It is the INNES tartan only.' No proof is offered of the assertion but it seems to have been taken at face value. Lochcarron wove this in 2005 calling it Innes Red. - 1938 — Innes (of Moray) Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Innes, (of Moray) (weddslist, record)
- undated — Innes (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 1938 (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 Tartans Authority (ITI): 361
Thread count
LB/7 K24 R4 K4 R4 K4 R24 Y4 R6 DB12 R6 K4 G20 K4 R6 W/4
One full sett is 263 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| 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
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.21 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/lb7k24r4k4r4k4r24y4r6db12r6k4g20k4r6w4/