Crichton Clan 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 BGBBYBBYG.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=7784
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2008 Commissioned from the Scottish Tartans Authority by the Clan Chief, David Crichton of Monzie, Crieff The design is loosely based on the MacGill tartan from around 1745 to signify the early 19th century connection with the Makgill family. The colours are taken from the Creighton coat of arms issued in the 1980s.
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
- 2008 (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
Thread count
DB/160 DG2 DB4 DR8 LR2 N10 DB16 LY4 DG/4
One full sett is 256 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | oklch(61.7% 0.067 235.0) |
| DB | #202060 #202060 | oklch(28.9% 0.111 276.9) |
| DB | #000048 #000048 | oklch(18.2% 0.126 264.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #5C5C5C #5C5C5C | oklch(47.5% 0.000 89.9) |
| LR | #A0A0A0 #A0A0A0 | oklch(70.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| O | #888888 #888888 | oklch(62.7% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s9/db80dg1db2dr4lr1n5db8ly2dg2x2db0705267-lr2800000-n1900000/