Ochterlonie
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 BYBYBY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4825
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Ochterlonie (register-of-tartans, record)
None - pre 2002 — Auchterlonie (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
This was said to be a private tartan for someone named Auchterlonie and was in the records of the late Jack Dalgety of Forfar. His version has a slightly different warp and weft. This version shown here was as woven by D C Dalgliesh, has the same warp and weft and was called Ochterlonie. Alternative version found in a large book (Page 91) of almost 400 hand-painted warp strips by James Cant (died 1960) and presented to Jack Dalgety of Forfar (Alex Dalgety & Son) which suggests that this #2677 is a corruption of the original.
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
- 2002 (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: 4825
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2677
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2677
Thread count
DB/70 LR16 DB42 LR26 DB12 LY/8
One full sett is 270 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
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/s6/db35lr8db21lr13db6ly4~x2/