Moffat District District 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 KRBRGRBRBR.
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=1139
Provenance
Earliest known date: c.1930 The sett is based on a fractional count in the notes made by John MacGregor Hastie in the 1930's. There is a similarity with the Murray of Tullibardine sett, in the centre portion, which was favoured in the Border districts to show support for the Jacobite cause in the early 18th century.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- c.1930 — Moffat District District Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 01/01/1950 — Moffat (1950) (register-of-tartans, record)
Origin unclear. Possibly started life as the clan/family tartan but when replaced by a new design in 1983, became a District tartan by default. A Dalgliesh version has a thicker black line between the red tramlines - K4 instead of K2. ('K' is the conventional shorthand for black in the industry so that it doesn't get confused with 'B' for blue). Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Dalgety Collection and Scottish Tartans Authority's Scarlett Collection. The sett is based on a fractional count in the notes made by John MacGregor Hastie in the 1930's. There is a similarity with the Murray of Tullibardine sett, in the centre portion, which was favoured in the Border districts to show support for the Jacobite cause in the early 18th century. This collection can also be found in the Scottish Tartans Society archive. - pre 1950 — Moffat (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Origin unclear. Possibly started life as the clan/family tartan but when replaced by a new design in 1983, became a District tartan by default. A Dalgliesh version has a thicker black line beyween the red tramlines - K4 instead of K2. ('K' is the conventional shorthand for black in the industry so that it doesn't get confused with 'B' for blue.). Sample in STA Dalgety Collection. Sample in STA's Scarlett Collection. - undated — Moffat (weddslist, record)
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
- c.1930 (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
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 2974
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1139
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1139
Thread count
R/128 DB32 R2 DB2 R24 G32 R16 DB4 R4 K/2
One full sett is 362 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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/r64db16r1db1r12g16r8db2r2k1~x2/