Lochnagar Dark Fashion 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 BBBBBKBKBK.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=7327
Provenance
Earliest known date: 01/01/1999 Inspired by the original works of Fenton Wyness, Dark Lochnagar tartan was designed to encapsulate Lochnagar in all its glory, including the Royal connections. Black & Grey are the primary colours of the tartan and were chosen to reflect 'The steep frowning glories of Dark Lochnagar', a line from Byron's verse. Purple was used for the Royal connections i.e. Queen Victoria's love of the district and Prince Charles book 'The Old Man of Lochnagar'. For the red we used a dye which we have called 'Red Granite' which Lochnagar has an abundance.'/Threadcount and colours aren't 100% original. Generated manually./
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
- 01/01/1999 (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
K/16 N2 K80 N2 K32 N32 DT12 N6 DR6 N/12
One full sett is 372 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 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/s10/k8n1k40n1k16n16dt6n3dr3n6~x2/