Isle of Arran (Personal)
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 RYBRBYGBY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1866
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1977 — Isle of Arran (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Swatch displayed at Lawson's Kilt Shop, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh 1977 as the only remaining piece of a special order produced for one individual. - 1977 — Arran, Isle of (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Swatch displayed at Lawson's Kilt Shop, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh 1977 as the only remaining piece of a special order produced for one man.
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
- 1977 (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: 1866
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5281
Thread count
R/4 LO16 DR12 R4 DR12 LR4 G12 DB12 LR/4
One full sett is 152 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| R | #880000 #880000 | oklch(39.4% 0.162 29.2) |
| DR | #480800 #480800 | oklch(26.1% 0.096 33.1) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
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/r1lo4dr3r1dr3lr1g3db3lr1x4r1606028-dr1004029/