Brodie (Clan)
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 KRKGKR.
Part of the Brodie tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=368
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1850 The origins of the Brodie tartan are difficult to pin down. The earliest and most reliable source is the original manuscript for the Smiths' book, 'Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland'(1850), although the sett was not included in the published work. The Smiths' sources included the findings of George Hunter, an army clothier, who toured the Highlands in search of old tartans prior to 1822. D.W. Stewart confirms this date but also mentions that the Brodies in Aberdeenshire wore the Huntly District tartan prior to 1820. There is also a different and more colourful sett recorded in the 'Baronage of Angus and Mearns' (1856) and a 'hunting' sett published in Johnston's 1st edition of 1891.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1820 — Brodie (Clan) (register-of-tartans, record)
Said (D W Stewart) to be traced back to at least the 1820s, it was first recorded in the Vestiarium Scoticum (1842). Prior to 1820 the Brodies wore the Huntly District tartan. - 1850 — Brodie Red Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Brodie (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
- 1820 (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: 368
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1192
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1192
Thread count
K/6 R30 K22 Y4 K8 R/6
One full sett is 140 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| 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/k3r15k11y2k4r3~x2/