Gordon Cumming (Artefact)
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 GGGGKG.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7643
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 2008 — Gordon Cumming (Artefact) (tartans-authority, record)
From an old framed print of a mutton-chopped Highland chief signed 'Yours faithfully, Gordon Cumming.' donated by Jim McAslan in 2008. The 'Gordon' is not crystal clear and it could conceivably be something else and it's not known if that's the christian name or part of the surname. In favour of the latter is the fact that the tartan does have a similarity to the Gordon clan tartan. The apron of the kilt is held down by three ornate 'silver' clasps. See 7644 for the hose worn by this subject. - undated — Gordon Cumming (register-of-tartans, record)
From an old framed print of a mutton-chopped Highland chief signed 'Yours faithfully, Gordon Cumming.' donated by Jim McAslan in 2008. The 'Gordon' is not crystal clear and it could conceivably be something else and it's not known if that's the christian name or part of the surname. In favour of the latter is the fact that the tartan does have a similarity to the Gordon 1 tartan. The apron of the kilt is held down by three ornate 'silver' clasps. See #7644 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) for the hose worn by this subject.
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
- pre 2008 (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: 5657
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7643
Thread count
Y/20 G60 DG50 G60 K4 G/6
One full sett is 374 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/y10g30dg25g30k2g3~x2/