Sinclair of Ulbster
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 BKGYGK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3798
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1796 — Sinclair of Ulbster (register-of-tartans, record)
Peter MacDonald swatch collection, Stone Mountain Games, in 1994. Taken from the trews in Raeburn's 1796 portrait of Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster who is portrayed as a Colonel in the Rothesay and Caithness Fencibles by Sir Henry Raeburn. Sir John is noted for having introduced agricultural innovations such as the Rotation of Crops. Blue lightened to show sett. - 1796 — Sinclair of Ulbster (Portrait) (tartans-authority, record)
Peter MacDonald swatch collection, Stone Mountain Games, in 1994. Taken from the trews in Raeburn's 1796 portrait of Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster who is portrayed as a Colonel in the Rothesay and Caithness Fencibles by Sir Henry Raeburn. Sir John is noted for having introduced agricultural innovations such as the Rotation of Crops. Blue lightened to show sett.
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
- 1796 (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: 3798
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 339
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 339
Thread count
T/96 K32 G48 LY8 G48 K/32
One full sett is 400 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DB | #202060 #202060 | oklch(28.9% 0.111 276.9) |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
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/s4/t12k4g6ly1~x8/