Inverness Earl of... District 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 RBGBGBGR.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1446
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1831 The sett used by James Logan to illustrate his method of recording the threads and colours of tartan patterns. It appears in the first edition of 'The Scottish Gael' and is therefore the first published illustration of a tartan sett. The problems of printing tartan were very much apparent and the illustration showed differences in each volume produced.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1831 — Inverness Earl of... District Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Inverness Earl of (register-of-tartans, record)
The sett used by James Logan to illustrate his method of recording the threads and colours of tartan patterns. It appears in the first edition of 'The Scottish Gael' 1831, and is therefore the first published illustration of a tartan sett. The problems of printing tartan were very much apparent and the illustration showed differences in each volume produced. - undated — Inverness, Earl of (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
- 1831 (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: 1845
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1446
Thread count
R/84 DB8 Y2 DB12 G2 DB2 G2 R/24
One full sett is 164 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s8/r42db4y1db6g1db1g1r12~x2/