Murray of Tullibardine #4
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 BRBRBRBRBRBRKRBRBRGRGRBRK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 25 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3074
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- undated — Murray of Tullibardine #4 (register-of-tartans, record)
A note in the Highland Society of London collection reads, 'Murray (Tullibardine) - This piece of cloth was made in 1794'. The sample is woven at 54 threads to the inch. The full sett measures 15 and one quarter inches (A. Nisbet, 1988). - undated — Murray of Tullibardine 5 (weddslist, 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
- 2017-01-06 (dataset default)
- 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: 3074
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1290
Thread count
DB/6 R5 DB4 R3 DB6 R4 DB4 R5 DB9 R5 DB4 R3 K8 R3 DB4 R36 DB27 R4 G4 R14 G27 R9 DB6 R6 K/3
One full sett is 409 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/s25/db6r5db4r3db6r4db4r5db9r5db4r3k8r3db4r36db27r4g4r14g27r9db6r6k3/