Ogilvie - 1831 (Clan)
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 GKGGKRWRWRKGGWGGKRWRWRKGGKGKGGKRWRWRKWBWKGGGGGBRKRWBWRWBWRKRBGGWGGKRWRWRKGGGKRWRW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 81 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2132
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 1812 — Ogilvie - 1831 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. The most complex of all tartans. The sett given by James Logan and referred to by D.C.Stewart has 91 colour changes. The tartan must be woven double width to see the full sett unless woven in silk. Ogilvie became connected with the Drummonds of Strathallan in 1812 by a marriage between the two families. Since then the Drummond sett has also been known as Ogilvie. - 01/01/2002 — Ogilvie (Logan) (register-of-tartans, record)
The most complex of all tartans. The sett given by James Logan The Scottish Gael. 1831, and referred to by D.C. Stewart has 91 colour changes. The tartan must be woven double width to see the full sett unless woven in silk. Ogilvie became connected with the Drummonds of Strathallan in 1812 by a marriage between the two families. Since then the Drummond sett has also been known as Ogilvie. Thread cout with full count at the pivots:- G28K8G28Y8K4R16W4R16W4R16K4Y4G16W4G16Y4K4R16W4R16W4R16K4Y4G28K8G28K8G28Y4K4R16W4R16W4R16K24W2B8W2K24Y8G12Y4G12Y8P4R8K4R28W2B4W2R28W2B4W2R28K4R8P4Y4G16W4G16Y4K4R16W4R16W4R16K4Y8G16Y8K4R4K4R4K4R4K4Y4G12Y4P8Y4K4W2R8P4W2K4Y4P8Y4G12Y4K4R4K4R4K4R4K4Y8G16Y8K4R16W4R16W4R16K4Y4G16W4G16Y4P4R8K4R28W2B4W2R28W2B4W2R28K4R8P4Y8G12Y4G12Y8K24W2B8W2K24R16W4R16W4R16K4Y4G28K8G28K8G28Y4
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
- pre 1812 (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: 3228
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2132
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2132
Thread count
G/28 K8 G28 Y8 K4 R16 W4 R16 W4 R16 K4 Y4 G16 W4 G16 Y4 K4 R16 W4 R16 W4 R16 K4 Y4 G28 K8 G28 K8 G28 Y4 K4 R16 W4 R16 W4 R16 K24 W2 DB8 W2 K24 Y8 G12 Y4 G12 Y8 DP4 R8 K4 R28 W2 DB4 W2 R28 W2 DB4 W2 R28 K4 R8 DP4 Y4 G16 W4 G16 Y4 K4 R16 W4 R16 W4 R16 K4 Y8 G16 Y8 K4 R16 W4 R16 W/4
One full sett is 1632 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) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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.
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