Edinchat
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 BRGRBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1506
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1720 — Edinchat (register-of-tartans, record)
This plaid was originally owned in the 18th century by a lady named Dunbar who later married a man called MacBain. The sett is similar to that of the Grant of Lurg tartan (STR #1507), with a blue line on red instead of a white line. - pre 1720 — Grant of Edinchat (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Sindex Card from Jim McAslan 2003: James Scarlett explanatiion: Widowed Mrs Dunbar came to marry MacBain of Tomatin (Invereen) about 1720 and she brought her family with her. This plaid was found (date?) at Edinchat in Strathdearn. MacBain died in 1859 and the last member of that MacBain family was in an Inverness retirment home in 2004. This is Grant of Lurg (#527) with a blue line on red instead of a white line. See also dress tartan for same family at #1248.
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
- 1720 (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: 1506
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6241
Thread count
O/8 DB52 O8 G52 O112 DB/8
One full sett is 464 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| 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/db2o28g13o2db13o2~x4/