Sources on Tartan Dictionary

Editorial curation

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The hand-curated overlay: variant names/stories/dating, pattern notes, clan and family stories, hand-attested clan-variant links, and search aliases. Applied on top of every build.

Provenance


Code	`curation`
Status	active — contributes data to the build
Kind	editorial curation overlay
Records	1676
Source	—
Attribution	Tartan Dictionary editorial (tartandictionary.org)
Licence	CC BY-SA 4.0

Our own editorial text; share-alike with attribution.

House of Tartan

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A weaver/retailer's tartan database of woven setts.

Provenance


Code	`house-of-tartan`
Status	active — contributes data to the build
Kind	tartan setts (thread counts)
Records	2152
Source	—
Attribution	Data: House of Tartan, via kravets-levko/tartan-database
Licence	CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Snapshot	https://github.com/kravets-levko/tartan-database @ 5bf86c756693

Creative Commons Non-Commercial No-Derivatives

Tartans from this source

A sample of the 2,098 tartans this source attests — the first 120, alphabetically. Each links to its sett page.

Ingles Buchan

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An independent Glasgow weaver's tartan catalogue (trading since 1795) — photographs of real woven cloth, mirrored with cmd/ibscrape. Setts are pending recovery from the photographs, so no variants are attested yet.

Provenance


Code	`inglesbuchan`
Status	pending — captured, setts not yet recovered
Kind	cloth photographs
Records	519
Source	https://inglesbuchan.com/tartan-finder
Attribution	Cloth photographs: Ingles Buchan (inglesbuchan.com)
Licence	All rights reserved (catalogue photographs)

Mirrored for research (image→threadcount recovery); photographs are not redistributed — the images directory is a local, gitignored cache.

Lochcarron shade card

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Lochcarron of Scotland's mill shade card — yarn references, colour names and reference shades, pending capture. Each record is one yarn the mill dyes; the ref is the mill's own catalogue number, the thing quoted on a custom order.

Provenance


Code	`lochcarron-colours`
Status	scaffold — schema defined, data not yet captured
Kind	colour / shade definitions
Records	1
Source	https://www.lochcarron.co.uk/
Attribution	Colour definitions: Lochcarron of Scotland
Licence	TBD — confirm with Lochcarron before capture

License posture unknown until the capture source is chosen (published shade card vs correspondence); record it here before the source goes active.

Logan, The Scottish Gaël (1831)

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James Logan's 1831 survey of clan tartans — the earliest systematic published record of setts, recorded as stripe widths in eighths of an inch. 55 setts transcribed by hand from the first edition and converted to threads at 8 per eighth-inch. As the oldest source it owns the cloth it shares with later records; related tartans that adjusted Logan's counts are noted on each sett.

James Logan's 1831 Table of Clan Tartans is the earliest systematic published record of clan setts. Because it is the oldest source, a Logan record owns any cloth it shares with later records, and each Logan sett page carries his original stripe table in eighths of an inch with links to the modern tartans that adjusted his counts. See the post Logan's Scottish Gaël for the full story.

Our own research

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Setts we recorded first-hand from physical artefacts and primary sources — e.g. the Drummond of Megginch heirlooms and the Falkirk fragment.

Setts we recorded first-hand — the Falkirk fragment and the Drummond of Megginch heirlooms (the ΔTartan ground truth).

Provenance


Code	`research`
Status	active — contributes data to the build
Kind	tartan setts (thread counts)
Records	9
Source	—
Attribution	Tartan Dictionary research (tartandictionary.org)
Licence	CC BY-SA 4.0

Our own measurements and narratives; share-alike with attribution.

Scottish Register of Tartans

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The official government register of tartans, maintained by National Records of Scotland — the statutory record a tartan is entered onto.

Provenance


Code	`register-of-tartans`
Status	active — contributes data to the build
Kind	tartan setts (thread counts)
Records	7427
Source	https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/
Attribution	Data: Scottish Register of Tartans, via kravets-levko/tartan-database
Licence	CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Snapshot	https://github.com/kravets-levko/tartan-database @ 5bf86c756693

Creative Commons Non-Commercial No-Derivatives

Tartans from this source

A sample of the 7,313 tartans this source attests — the first 120, alphabetically. Each links to its sett page.

Scottish Register of Tartans (site mirror)

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Dated captures of tartanregister.gov.uk record pages — name, category, dates, registration notes and the rendered sett image per SRT ref. Numeric threadcounts are login-gated, so setts are pending recovery from the renders.

Provenance


Code	`registry`
Status	pending — captured, setts not yet recovered
Kind	cloth photographs
Records	9505
Source	https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/
Attribution	Data and images: Scottish Register of Tartans (tartanregister.gov.uk), Crown copyright
Licence	Crown copyright

See terms.json (captured 2026-06-05) for the scope split: post-2009 register text reusable with attribution; pre-2009 legacy text rests with the STA/STWR; images Crown copyright, fair-dealing reuse with attribution.

Scottish Tartans Authority

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The Scottish Tartans Authority's reference collection — a heritage body holding one of the largest tartan archives.

Provenance


Code	`tartans-authority`
Status	active — contributes data to the build
Kind	tartan setts (thread counts)
Records	5999
Source	https://www.tartansauthority.com/
Attribution	Data: Scottish Tartans Authority, via kravets-levko/tartan-database
Licence	CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Snapshot	https://github.com/kravets-levko/tartan-database @ 5bf86c756693

Creative Commons Non-Commercial No-Derivatives

Tartans from this source

A sample of the 5,943 tartans this source attests — the first 120, alphabetically. Each links to its sett page.

Tartan Register colour definitions

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The Scottish Register of Tartans' standard colour list — dye codes, colour names and reference shades as published in 'Tartan Register colours' (Aug 2023 edition; the Feb 2016 edition's dropped shades kept as superseded). Follows the STA colour-code conventions. (internal/shades/data/scottish-tartans-authority.json is the corpus-derived legend, not this.)

Provenance


Code	`str-colours`
Status	active — contributes data to the build
Kind	colour / shade definitions
Records	145
Source	https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/docs/Colour_shades.pdf
Attribution	Colour definitions: Scottish Register of Tartans
Licence	TBD — Scottish Register of Tartans publication (Crown body); likely Crown copyright/OGL, confirm before redistribution

Captured from the PDF 'Tartan Register colours' (author adiamond; Aug 2023 edition, with the Feb 2016 edition for the superseded tail). Colour values are facts (hex/RGB swatches); confirm the document's licence before republishing it verbatim.

Weddslist

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A privately compiled online tartan reference, cross-indexing setts from many sources.

Provenance


Code	`weddslist`
Status	active — contributes data to the build
Kind	tartan setts (thread counts)
Records	3397
Source	https://www.weddslist.com/tartans/
Attribution	Data: Weddslist, via kravets-levko/tartan-database
Licence	CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Snapshot	https://github.com/kravets-levko/tartan-database @ 5bf86c756693

Creative Commons Non-Commercial No-Derivatives

Tartans from this source

A sample of the 3,189 tartans this source attests — the first 120, alphabetically. Each links to its sett page.

Wikipedia

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Claim-level captures from Wikipedia articles — each record pins an article revision and the specific claims (with quotes) drawn from it.

Provenance


Code	`wikipedia`
Status	scaffold — schema defined, data not yet captured
Kind	descriptive text
Records	1
Source	https://en.wikipedia.org/
Attribution	Text: Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 (per-record article and revision)
Licence	CC BY-SA 4.0

Attribution per article; share-alike applies to derived text.