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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 BYBYBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4905
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1689 — Latin (register-of-tartans, record)
Woven by researcher Ross-Craven from a translation from the Latin of a description given in 1689 of the garb of the Cameron men of Lochaber. From the West Highland Museum, Fort William. The tartan follows the Cameron sett but in different colours. - 1689 — Latin (Artefact) (tartans-authority, record)
Woven by researcher Ross-Craven from a translation from the Latin of a description given in 1689 of the garb of the Cameron men of Lochaber. From the West Highland Museum, Fort William (?). The tartan follows the Cameron sett but in different colours.
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
- 1689 (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: 4905
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3873
Thread count
DB/6 LY18 DB6 LY18 DB40 R/6
One full sett is 176 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) |
| 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/db3ly9db3ly9db20r3~x2/