Slessor (Personal)
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 GYGBYBYBYBYBGY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3818
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/03/2003 — Slessor (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
A wedding present for Kirsteen Slessor from her parents Margaret and William Slessor of Udny, Aberdeenshire. The colours are based on a simple tartan woven by Kirsteen when she was aged about ten. The two biscuit coloured lines represent the two Slessor children; the three blue lines represent the bridesmaids. The light biscuit threadcount is 24 which is the date of the wedding in Scotland; the green threadcount is 22 which is the date of the blessing in Ireland. - March 2003 — Slessor (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
A wedding present for Kirsteen Slessor from her parents Margaret and William Slessor of Udny, Aberdeenshire. The colours are based on a simple tartan woven by Kirsteen when she was aged about ten. The two biscuit coloured lines represent the two Slessor children; the three blue lines represent the bridesmaids. The light biscuit threadcount is 24 which is the date of the wedding in Scotland; the green threadcount is 22 which is the date of the blessing in Ireland.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Register of Tartans
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/register-of-tartans/data.csv
- data date
- 01/03/2003 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - 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: 3818
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5795
Thread count
DG/4 LY2 DG22 DR100 LY24 DB4 LY8 DB4 LY8 DB4 LY24 DR100 DG22 LY/2
One full sett is 650 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
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/s8/dg2ly1dg11dr50ly12db2ly4db2~x2/