Moffat Family Tartan
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 KBKBKBR.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1129
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1983 When Major Francis Moffat of that Ilk M.C. was recognised as Chief of the Name and House of Moffat, by Lord Lyon in 1983, after the family had been without a chief for 420 years, a family tartan based on the Douglas was introduced to commemorate early family connections.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1983 — Moffat Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 01/01/1984 — Moffat (1984) (register-of-tartans, record)
When Major Francis Moffat of that Ilk M.C. was recognised as Chief of the Name and House of Moffat, by Lord Lyon in 1983, after the family had been without a chief for 420 years, a family tartan based on the Douglas was introduced to commemorate early family connections. It is a colour variation of Grey Douglas. Recorded Lorld Lyon Book. LCB 50 dated 26th September 1984. Lyon count: K78 Grey6 K6 Grey6 K28 Grey56 R6 Grey6. This count appears to be in error since R6 is the second pivot and not Grey6. Samples in Scottish Tartans Authority Dalgety Collection. - 1984 — Moffat (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
When Major Francis Moffat of that Ilk M.C. was recognised as Chief of the Name and House of Moffat, by Lord Lyon in 1983, after the family had been without a chief for 420 years, a family tartan based on the Douglas was introduced to commemorate early family connections. It is a colour variation of Grey Douglas. Recorded Lorld Lyon Book. LCB 50 dated 26th September 1984. Lyon count: K78 Grey6 K6 Grey6 K28 Grey56 R6 Grey6. This count appears to be in error since R6 is the second pivot and not Grey6. Sample in STA Collection. Samples in STA Dalgety Collection. - undated — Moffat (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1983 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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: 2975
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1129
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1129
Thread count
K/78 N6 K6 N6 K28 N56 R/6
One full sett is 288 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/k39n3k3n3k14n28r3~x2/