Cumming Comyn Buchan Clan 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 BKRGRKRGRKBRGRKRBKRKRGR.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 23 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=2012
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 2003 D.C.Stewart comments, "Still further confusion has arisen from Smibert's illustration.." The present editor is none the wiser.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 2003 — Cumming Comyn Buchan Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Cumming/Comyn/Buchan (register-of-tartans, record)
D.C. Stewart comments, "Still further confusion has arisen from Smibert's illustration." The present editor is none the wiser. T Smibert, The Clans of the Highlands of Scotland, 1850. - undated — Comyn / Cumming, Buchan (weddslist, record)
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
- pre 2003 (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
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 841
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2012
Thread count
R/12 G12 R2 K16 R2 K2 DB2 R2 K16 R2 G12 R12 DB2 K12 R2 G16 R2 K2 R2 G16 R2 K12 DB/2
One full sett is 310 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/s23/r6g6r1k8r1k1db1r1k8r1g6r6db1k6r1g8r1k1r1g8r1k6db1~x2/