Paterson Blue (Personal)
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 BWKGRG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3301
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1996 A second tartan for the family of John Patterson. Assume same designer as the first Patterson (Red).
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1993 — Paterson Blue (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
A second tartan for the family of John Patterson. Assume same designer as the first Patterson (Red). - 1996 — Patterson, John (Blue) (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
A second tartan for the family of John Patterson. Assume same designer as the first Paterson, Red - 2191. The question of a Paterson Clan tartan is beset by confusion and there are six claimants to the 'throne' all of which seem to have been designed for individuals or individual Paterson families within the very recent past (1988 to 1996). Until such time as a definitive tartan appears, it may be that Patersons seeking a tartan would feel more comfortable looking at those clans with which the Patersons have enjoyed an historical connection. - MacLaren, Farquharson, Lamont, MacAulay & Campbell." - 1996 — Patterson (blue) family Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Patterson (blue) (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
- 1993 (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: 3301
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2325
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2325
Thread count
DB/44 W4 K20 G22 R6 G/8
One full sett is 156 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) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s6/db22w2k10g11r3g4~x2/