Cordiner (Boddam)
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 BBRBBBBBBBBRBGBRBB.
Part of the Cordiner tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10721
Provenance
Earliest known date: 22 October 2012 The designer has created a modern tartan reflecting the history and ancestry of Cordiners from Boddam, Aberdeenshire. The designer is happy for all those with the surname Cordiner to wear this tartan.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 15/10/2012 — Cordiner (Boddam) (register-of-tartans, record)
The designer has created a modern tartan reflecting the history and ancestry of Cordiners from Boddam, Aberdeenshire. The designer is happy for all those with the surname Cordiner to wear this tartan. - 22 October 2012 — Cordiner (Boddam) Name Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 15/10/2012 (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: 10721
Thread count
DB/84 N26 R6 N4 Y6 N4 R6 N22 DB16 N16 DB52 N16 DB16 N16 DB8 M6 DB8 N/32
One full sett is 572 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| M | #F6799F #F6799F | oklch(73.0% 0.157 2.5) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #DD1212 #DD1212 | oklch(56.8% 0.226 28.6) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s18/db42n13r3n2y3n2r3n11db8n8db26n8db8n8db4m3db4n16x2r2309032-m2906000/