Forbes - 1947 (Lyon Court)
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 BKBKGKW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=212
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1831 — Forbes - 1947 (Lyon Court) (tartans-authority, record)
Although this is not the version used by weavers it is the Official Forbes (Ancient) as recorded in Lord Lyon's Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland. (PRA 37/124) 2nd December 1949. Lyon count: B2 K12 B12 K12 G12 K2 W2. STS notes: Lord Lyon includes the word 'Ancient' in register entry. The Clan Forbes is said to originate from one Ochonochar, who slew a bear to gain possession of the Braes of Forbes in Aberdeenshire. The charter for the land was granted later in 1271. - 01/01/1949 — Forbes, Ancient (register-of-tartans, record)
Although this is not the version used by weavers it is the Official Forbes (Ancient) as recorded in Lord Lyon's Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland. (PRA 37/124) 2nd December 1949. Lyon count: B2 K12 B12 K12 G12 K2 W2. Scottish Tartans Society notes: Lord Lyon includes the word 'Ancient' in register entry. The Clan Forbes is said to originate from one Ochonochar, who slew a bear to gain possession of the Braes of Forbes in Aberdeenshire. The charter for the land was granted later in 1271.
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
- 1831 (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
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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
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Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 1225
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 212
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 212
Thread count
DB/6 K36 DB36 K36 G36 K6 W/6
One full sett is 312 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s7/db1k6db6k6g6k1w1~x6/