Loch Ness (Fashion)
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 RBRBYKW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5450
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1995 — Loch Ness (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
"Designed and exclusively handwoven under licence in Harris Tweed by Donald John MacKay, 6 Luskentyre, Isle of Skye, Scotland." This was designed by Donald John for Mrs Rosemary Samios, of Skye and is also woven in Reiver and Strome quality by Lochcarron of Scotland. Whilst officially a 'fashion' tartan it may be becoming accepted as a district tartan for the area. Apparently also used by the Broomhedge pipe band in Ireland. - undated — Loch Ness #2 (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed and exclusively handwoven under licence in Harris Tweed by Donald John MacKay, 6 Luskentyre, Isle of Skye, Scotland. This was designed by Donald John for Mrs Rosemary Samios, of Skye and is also woven in Reiver and Strome quality by Lochcarron of Scotland. Whilst officially a 'fashion' tartan it may be becoming accepted as a district tartan for the area. Apparently also used by the Broomhedge pipe band in Ireland.
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
- 1995 (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: 5423
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5450
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 3039
Thread count
R/4 T4 R4 T42 LG22 K34 LB/4
One full sett is 220 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | oklch(61.7% 0.067 235.0) |
| LG | #82D67A #82D67A | oklch(80.1% 0.150 142.2) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #98C8E8 #98C8E8 | oklch(81.0% 0.068 237.9) |
| 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/r2t2r2t21lg11k17lb2x2t2503227-lb3203246/