Taylor
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 GKGRGBGY.
Part of the Taylor tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4080
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1955 — Taylor (register-of-tartans, record)
The Taylor tartan was designed in 1955 by two outstanding authorities on tartans: Miss Margaret MacDougall, of the Inverness Museum, and Lt.Col I.B. Cameron Taylor. The double black lines in the tartan are said to represent the Black Tailor and his bar sinister. Scottish Tartans Society Notes: some similarity to the Cameron of Lochiel Hunting (#1535, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) as recorded in the Vestiarium Scoticum which may be connected with the designer, or to the Clan Cameron warrior Taillear dubh na Tuaighe (Black Taylor of the Axe) who lived in the 17th century. The tartan is recognised by the Cameron of Lochiel. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Dalgety Collection. Second sample has grey in place of blue. - 1955 — Taylor (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
The Taylor tartan was designed in 1955 by two outstanding authorities on tartans: Miss Margaret MacDougall, of the Inverness Museum, and Lt.Col I.B. Cameron Taylor. The double black lines in the tartan are said to represent the Black Tailor and his bar sinister. Extensive STS notes on this one: some similarity to the Cameron of Lochiel Hunting (1535) as recorded in the Vestiarium Scoticum which may be connected with the designer, or to the Clan Cameron warrior Taillear dubh na Tuaighe (Black Taylor of the Axe) who lived in the 17th century. The tartan is recognised by the Cameron of Lochiel. Sample in STA Dalgety Collection. Second sample has grey in place of blue.
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
- 1955 (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: 4080
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 809
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 809
Thread count
G/16 K4 G26 R8 G24 DB44 G10 LY/6
One full sett is 254 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
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/g8k2g13r4g12db22g5ly3~x2/