Patterson, John (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 GBWGRG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3303
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1993 — Patterson, John (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Formally a noted tartan called Patterson (green) U.S.A. 1993. - 1993 — Patterson, John (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
A personal tartan woven (but not designed by) Marjorie Warren of North Carolina for a John Patterson. No other details known. 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." - undated — Patterson, John (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: 3303
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2191
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2191
Thread count
G/6 DB24 W2 DG24 R24 DG/4
One full sett is 158 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| 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/g3db12w1dg12r12dg2~x2/