Davidson
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 RBGBGKGKGKR.
Part of the Davidson tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=891
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1842 — Davidson (register-of-tartans, record)
Recorded in the Public Register of All Arms & Bearings in Scotland 44/89 on 27th July 1961 by Sir David Davidson of Alltdinnie. Scottish Tartans Society noted that D.C. Stewart called this sett 'the more recent' Davidson and the basis for the Henderson tartan. It was included in 'Old and Rare Scottish Tartans' by D.W. Stewart (1893), with a woven sample in silk. This version of the Davidson tartan omits the white stripe of the earlier setts recorded by the Highland Society of London and in the Moy Hall collection. Uniquely among tartans there is also a 'Half Davidson' (STR #897) and a 'Double Davidson' (#896). - undated — Davidson (weddslist, record)
- undated — Davidson (weddslist, record)
- undated — Davidson (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: 891
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1332
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1332
Thread count
R/2 K12 G2 K2 G16 K2 G16 DB2 G2 DB12 R/2
One full sett is 136 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/s11/r1k6g1k1g8k1g8db1g1db6r1~x2/