Lang
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 BGBGBWBWBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4833
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1840 — Lang (register-of-tartans, record)
Scottish Tartans Society notes: Portion of plaid c 1840-70 in Scottish Tartans Society collection. Lang gift (Scottish Tartans Society reference 38/1) . 64 inches by 65 inches. This thread count has been reduced when compared to the sample for display purposes. 'The International Tartan Index thread count is estimated from a computer screen graphic so should not be taken as 100% accurate. Clan Laing Society website notes are as follows: 'In 1983 Malcolm J. Lang donated a tartan that had been woven some time between 1840 and 1855 to the Scottish Tartan Society. The sett of this tartan and that of the Laing tartan recovered from the grave of George Laing were so strikingly similar that it was assumed for a brief period that they both could have been created by the same weaver. Using the sett of the donated tartan and that recovered from the grave of George Laing, the original basic sett from which both tartans were derived could be determined with a considerable degree of confidence. Although adapted for a half sett this too is an authentic Laing family tartan.' See also #6096 and #2544 (original Scottish Tartans Authority references). - Circa 1840 — Lang (Artefact) (tartans-authority, record)
STS notes: Portion of plaid c 1840-70 in STS collection. Lang gift 38/1. 64 inches by 65 inches. This thread count has been reduced when compared to the sample for display purposes. "This ITI thread count is estimated from a computer screen graphic so should not be taken as 100% accurate. Clan Laing Society website notes are as follows: "In 1983 Malcolm J. Lang donated a tartan that had been woven some time between 1840 and 1855 to the Scottish Tartan Society. The sett of this tartan and that of the Laing tartan recovered from the grave of George Laing were so strikingly similar that it was assumed for a brief period that they both could have been created by the same weaver. Using the sett of the donated tartan and that recovered from the grave of George Laing, the original basic sett from which both tartans were derived could be determined with a considerable degree of confidence. Although adapted for a half sett this too is an authentic Laing family tartan." See also #6096 and 2544.
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
- 1840 (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: 4833
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3113
Thread count
LB/8 DP4 LB12 DP4 LB20 DP60 G20 DP4 G18 DP/4
One full sett is 296 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
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/lb4dp2lb6dp2lb10dp30g10dp2g9dp2~x2/