Dickson Name 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 BWBGBBBBBGBW.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=10140
Provenance
Earliest known date: July 2009 A tartan designed by Matthew Newsome for George Newberry of Macon, GA, USA who wishes it to be regarded as a tartan for all Dicksons from Kirkcudbrightshire, who are descended from Richard Keith, son of the Marischal of Scotland (d. 1249) and Margaret, daughter of the third Lord Douglas.
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
- July 2009 (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
Thread count
DB/8 W6 DB58 G24 N16 DBi16 N12 DBi16 N16 G24 DB58 W/6
One full sett is 506 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DB | #181864 #181864 | oklch(27.2% 0.129 273.8) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #14141C #14141C | oklch(19.5% 0.016 284.8) |
| 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/n6dbi8n8g12db29w3db4x2dbi1105279/