Cairngorm #2

March 18, 2023 ⌗ Edit this in the TTD

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 BWBKGRG.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=463

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)

01/01/2006 — Cairngorm #2 (register-of-tartans, record)
Threadcount taken from sample handed in to the STA by Ron Clark of Crieff in Nov 2006.
pre 2006 — Cairngorm #2 (tartans-authority, record)
Handed in by Ron Clark of Crieff in Nov 2006. Origin not known but still being woven.

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: 2006 (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: 463
Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7071

Thread count

DB/10 LB8 DB44 K30 G44 R8 G/8

One full sett is 286 threads.

Sett

Palette

Colour	Shade	OKLCh
LB	`#B5BBDE` #B5BBDE	oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
R	`#D60020` #D60020	oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
K	`#000000` #000000	oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
G	`#008B2A` #008B2A	oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
DB	`#082077` #082077	oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)

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.

ΔTartan

Threads

Variant

Sett

—

286

172

158

MacLean, Donald (Personal)

214

240

112

Argyll District Tartan

1.81

224

Campbell of Cawdor

1.82

224

Royal Highland Corporate Tartan

230

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/db5lb4db22k15g22r4g4~x2/