Brough (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 BBWBGBG.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2233
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 1992 — Brough (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Said to have been previously recorded by the 'Scottish Highlands Society' this Sinclair variation was registered with TECA on 17 Oct 1992 by David Brough Benton. His grandfather's (John Brough) tartan dating back to the 1830's. was reconstructed by Eric Swinn of Ocala, Florida and handwoven by Peter MacDonald, Perthshire. - undated — Brough (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
A Sinclair variation registered with the Tartan Educational Cultural Association on 17 Oct 1992 by David Brough Benton. His grandfather's (John Brough) tartan dating back to the 1830's was reconstructed by Eric Swinn of Ocala Florida and handwoven by Peter MacDonald, Perthshire.
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 1992 (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: 389
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2233
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2233
Thread count
DR/36 DB24 W4 DB24 DG16 DR6 DG/20
One full sett is 204 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| 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/dr18db12w2db12dg8dr3dg10~x2/