Campbell of Breadalbane Clan 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 KBKGGGK.
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=1046
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1810-15 The earliest reference to this pattern is called simply, Breadalbane. W. and A. Smith (1850) were the first to illustrate the sett in its present form. Wilson's of Bannockburn produced this pattern, the No. 64 or 'Abercrombie' in a variety of colours. (See Graham, MacCallum, Rollo.)
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1810-15 — Campbell of Breadalbane Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 01/01/1819 — Campbell of Breadalbane #3 (register-of-tartans, record)
First appeared as Wilson's No.64 in 1819 and became 'Breadalbane' in the Cockburn Collection and then Campbell of Breadalbane in Smiths' 1850 Authentic Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland. D.C. Stewart's Sindex card says this pattern was supplied to the Smiths by the Marquis of Breadalbane but that it was a spurious trade tartan known as a 'Fancy'. Also appears in the 1880 Clans Originaux. See also STR #2501 MacKay. Wilson's of Bannockburn produced this pattern, the No. 64 or 'Abercrombie' in a variety of colours. See also Graham, MacCallum and Rollo tartans. - undated — Campbell of Breadalbane (weddslist, record)
- undated — Campbell of Breadalbane (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
- 1810-15 (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: 517
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1046
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1046
Thread count
K/18 G18 Y4 G18 K18 DB18 K/6
One full sett is 176 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) |
| 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/s7/k9g9y2g9k9db9k3~x2/