Moran (Name)
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 GKRKGK.
Part of the Moran tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=675
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1986 — Moran (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
An alternative thread count has Royal Blue 8 between the yellow tramlines. The Tartans Society has this classified as 'family' so it is assumed that it can be worn by all of the name. No trace of Designworks Associates can be found (EBW Oct. 2004). STS notes of 1988 say 'for the personal use of Mr Christopher Moran' - 01/01/1987 — Moran (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
An alternative thread count has Royal Blue 8 between the yellow tramlines. Scottish Tartans Society notes and STWR correspondence record this tartan as being restricted for the personal use of Mr Christopher Moran. - undated — Moran (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 1986 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 3005
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 675
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 675
Thread count
G/110 K34 R18 K22 Y4 K/8
One full sett is 274 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/g55k17r9k11y2k4~x2/