Chisholm of Strathglass
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 of Strathglass 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=642
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1880 — Chisholm of Strathglass (register-of-tartans, record)
A slight variation in proportions from the Chisholm sett in the collection of the Highland Society of London. Logan gives this sett as Chisholm, as do Smibert (1850) and the Smiths (1850), but Grant (1886) shows the Vestiarium design. This collection was in the Scottish Tartans Society archive, It has now been returned to the Paton firm at Alloa. - 1880 — Chisholm of Strathglass (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
A proportional variation from the standard Chisholm sett in the Highland Society of London Collection and marked as 'Chisholm of Strathglass'. STS Notes say 'Logan gives this sett as Chisholm, as do Smibert(1850) and the Smiths (1850), but Grant (1886) shows the Vestiarium design. ' Note Sept 2005. This is not the version shown in Smiths.
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
- 1880 (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: 642
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1455
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1455
Thread count
R/14 W4 R72 T12 DG6 T6 DG6 T6 DG24 R/8
One full sett is 294 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/r7w2r36t6dg3t3dg3t3dg12r4~x2/