Livingstone #2
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 GRKRKRGRGR.
Part of the Livingston tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2135
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 2003 Robert Bain's "The Clans and Tartans of Scotland" illustrates this sett. It is similar to the MacDonell of Keppoch. The small Highland clan of Livingston from the Isle of Lismore and Western Argyll originally bore a Gaelic name spelled in different ways - MacDunsleinhe, Mac-an-Leigh, or Maclea - and they were connected to the Stewarts of Appin. There is also an unconnected Lowland family deriving their name from the lands of Levingstoun.
6 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1906 — Livingstone #2 (register-of-tartans, record)
Same as #895 (original Scottish Tartans World Register reference) but with black instead of green lines between the green bands. D.C. Stewart in the 'Setts' (1950) says 'The Livingstones are variously associated with the Buchanans, the MacDougals and the Stewarts of Appin, but the tartan does not resemble that of any of these clans. It does resemble a MacDonell of Keppoch, the main difference is that the centre of the design is a solid band of green, where the Keppoch has two narrow green bands.' The small Highland clan of Livingstone from the Isle of Lismore and Western Argyll originally bore a Gaelic name spelled in different ways - MacDunsleinhe, Mac-an-Leigh, or Maclea - and they were connected to the Stewarts of Appin. There is also an unconnected Lowland family (Livingston without the 'e') deriving their name from the lands of Levingstoun. - 1906 — Livingstone (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
As #895 but with black instead of green lines between the green bands. D C Stewart in the 'Setts' (1950) says "The Livingstones are variously associated with the Buchanans, the MacDougals and the Stewarts of Appin, but the tartan does not resemble that of any of these clans. It does resemble a MacDonell of Keppoch, the main difference is that the centre of the design is a solid band of green, where the Keppoch has two narrow green bands." The small Highland clan of Livingstone from the Isle of Lismore and Western Argyll originally bore a Gaelic name spelled in different ways - MacDunsleinhe, Mac-an-Leigh, or Maclea - and they were connected to the Stewarts of Appin. There is also an unconnected Lowland family (Livingston without the 'e') deriving their name from the lands of Levingstoun. - pre 2003 — Livingstone Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Livingstone (weddslist, record)
- undated — Livingston (weddslist, record)
- undated — Livingston (weddslist, record)
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
- 1906 (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: 2135
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1003
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1003
Thread count
G/24 R8 K2 R4 K2 R8 G32 R40 G4 R/16
One full sett is 240 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/s10/g12r4k1r2k1r4g16r20g2r8~x2/