Chisholm
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 RGBGBGBRWR.
Part of the Chisholm D 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=638
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1842 — Chisholm (register-of-tartans, record)
The sett as it appears in James Grants 'The Tartans of the Clans of Scotland' 1886. It is similar to the sample in the collection of the Highland Society of London dating back to 1815. - 1842 — Chisholm - 1842 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Suspiciously close to the VS version of Menzies @ # 1859. Were the Sobieskis running out of design ideas? Also appears - where it is given the alternative name of 'Chyssal' - in a bound book of hand-painted tartans on graph paper from "Coats of Arms, Crests, Clan Tartans &c. Designed for Ebroidery by J Whyte, 41 Clerk Street, Edinburgh" Note at front of book: "This book of clan tartans is referred to in 'The Lamont Tartan' - Major Scobie's copy - 'Two papers addressed to the Clan Lamont Society by Lieut-Col. William Lamont OBE - in STS Library - Page 9 refers." That note is initialled J.T.D. 9.IX.65 - undated — Chisholm, The (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
- 1842 (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: 638
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1454
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1454
Thread count
R/12 W2 R48 DB12 G4 DB2 G4 DB2 G24 R/2
One full sett is 210 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 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/r6w1r24db6g2db1g2db1g12r1~x2/