Murray, Mungo
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 GYKYKYKYRYRYKYRYRYKYRYKYRYKYRYRYKYKYKYKYKYKYKYKYKYKYGWGYGWGYKYWYKYGWGYGWGYKYKYKYK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 81 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3078
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1670 — Murray, Mungo (register-of-tartans, record)
From a 1670 painting of Mungo Murray by Michael Wright in the National Gallery, Edinburgh. Study by Alasdair MacLeod of Edinburgh in 1994. A Highland Chieftain: Portrait of Lord Mungo Murray (1668-1700) by John Michael Wright. This highly important example of John Michael Wrights late work was sold through Timothy Sammons Fine Art Agents at auction for 332,750 pounds ($439,202), a record price for the artist. It is the earliest known major portrait to show Highland dress. Lord Mungo Murray was the fifth son of the 2nd Earl of Atholl. He died young, in about 1700, during an attempt to find a Scottish colony in Panama. Nearly all references to him concern his military role in the North of Scotland in the 1680s and 1690s. - circa 1670 — Murray, Mungo (Artefact) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. From a 1670 painting of Lord Mungo Murray (1668-1700) by John Michael Wright in the National Gallery, Edinburgh. Thread count from a study by Alasdair MacLeod of Edinburgh in 1994. An extraordinarily complicated, asymmetrical pattern with 79 colour changes. . . T20 Y8 K4 Y4 K4 Y4 K4 Y8 S2 Y4 S2 Y8 K8 Y6 S14 Y6 S14 Y2 K2 Y2 SR14 Y2 K2 Y2 S14 Y2 K2 Y2 S14 Y6 S14 Y6 K8 Y8 K4 Y4 K4 Y8 K8 Y12 K4 Y12 K4 Y12 K4 Y12 K4 Y12 K4 Y12 K20 Y8 T2 W4 T2 Y4 T2 W4 T2 Y8 K12 Y2 W4 Y2 K12 Y8 T2 W4 T2 Y4 T2 W4 T2 Y8 K20 Y12 K4 Y12 K4 Y12 . . . . This highly important example of Wright's late work was sold through Timothy Sammons at auction for 332,750 GBP ($439,202), a record price for the artist. It is the earliest known major portrait to show Highland dress. Lord Mungo Murray was the fifth son of the 2nd Earl of Atholl. He died young in 1700 during an attempt to found a Scottish colony in Panama. Nearly all references to him concern his military role in the North of Scotland in the 1680s and 1690s.ary role in the North of Scotland in the 1680s and 1690s.
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
- 1670 (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: 3078
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2173
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2173
Thread count
DY/20 LY8 K4 LY4 K4 LY4 K4 LY8 R2 LY4 R2 LY8 K8 LY6 R14 LY6 R14 LY2 K2 LY2 R14 LY2 K2 LY2 R14 LY2 K2 LY2 R14 LY6 R14 LY6 K8 LY8 K4 LY4 K4 LY8 K8 LY12 K4 LY12 K4 LY12 K4 LY12 K4 LY12 K4 LY12 K20 LY8 DY2 W4 DY2 LY4 DY2 W4 DY2 LY8 K12 LY2 W4 LY2 K12 LY8 DY2 W4 DY2 LY4 DY2 W4 DY2 LY8 K20 LY12 K4 LY12 K4 LY12 K/4
One full sett is 1044 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #604000 #604000 | oklch(39.8% 0.083 76.8) |
| LY | #E8C000 #E8C000 | oklch(81.9% 0.168 93.7) |
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.
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