Telfer Name 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 GGGRBWBBW.
Part of the Telfer tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
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=10083
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2009 As a child the designer went to church in a kilt of Royal Stewart tartan, a gift from his parents. The Duncan Telfer tartan, although different in design to the Stewart tartan, echoes it in its structure. But here the predominance of red and its opposition to the green symbolises how the ancestors of the Telfers arrived in Britain on the tide of battle during the Norman invasion. This affinity is augmented by the clash of steel blue stripes. This strife is also silently witnessed by the sky (blue), trees (green) and the sun (gold). The designer would like to dedicate this tartan to the memory of his parents, James and Margaret Telfer. This tartan is for the use of all of the name of Telfer. Although there are no restrictions, anyone intending to manufacture or use this tartan is encouraged to contact the designer (or his direct descendants) and a choice of preferred charities will be offered for a suggested donation. Copyright of this design belongs to Duncan Telfer. It was developed for weaving by House of Tartan.
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
- 2009 (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
G/18 Y4 G12 R70 DB12 LB2 DR40 DB10 LB/4
One full sett is 322 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DB | #1C1C50 #1C1C50 | oklch(26.2% 0.093 277.9) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| 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) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) |
| R | #C8002C #C8002C | oklch(52.6% 0.212 22.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.06 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/g9y2g6r35db6lb1dr20db5lb2x2r2109032-db1004274/