Myron
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 BGBKBKBKBGYGYGBGK.
Part of the Myron tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 17 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3086
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1920 — Myron (register-of-tartans, record)
A previously unknown sample labelled Myron that in 1985 was found in a collection of tartans from Paton's of Tillicoultry and subsequently numberd #29 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference). It is in fact Kennedy (#5334, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) with the yellow & magenta transposed'. Assumed Fashion. The Paton Collection was put together around 1830's, it was in the Scottish Tartans Society archive and has now been returned to the Paton firm at Alloa. - circa 1920s — Myron (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
A previously unknown sample labelled Myron that in 1985 was found in a collection of tartans from Paton's of Tillicoultry and subsequently numberd #29. It is in fact Kennedy (#5334) with the yellow & magenta transposed". Assumed Fashion.
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
- 1920 (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: 3086
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1105
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1105
Thread count
K/4 G4 DR4 G4 LO4 G4 LO4 G16 DB4 K4 DB4 K4 DB4 K4 DB4 G28 DR/4
One full sett is 200 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
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/s17/k1g1dr1g1lo1g1lo1g4db1k1db1k1db1k1db1g7dr1~x4/