Patterson, William John Magee (Personal)
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 BBBYBBBYBGGR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10129
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2009, October Named after grandfather William John Magee Patterson who took the Patterson family across the ocean to the Americas. Designed by grand daughter, Jane Patterson, with colours to symbolise her Irish and Scottish descent.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 20/10/2009 — Patterson, William John Magee (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed to honour the descendents of William John Magee Patterson (of Scottish ancestry and born in Ballyrush, Northern Ireland in 1896). William John Magee Patterson moved to the United States to settle in Colorado (USA). The design was created by his granddaughter Jane Patterson and Blair Urquhart of the House of Tartan, Comrie. The shades of green represent Ireland. The colors red, white & blue represent the United States of America. The crossing patterns of beige and navy grey represent the adventures of immigration by boat. The registration of this tartan is a symbolic gesture to honour the Patterson family roots. - 2009 — Patterson William John Magee Name Tartan (house-of-tartan, 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
- 20/10/2009 (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: 10129
Thread count
DB/18 N6 DB4 LR4 DB18 N12 DB6 LR6 DB6 G36 DG16 R/4
One full sett is 250 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s12/db9n3db2lr2db9n6db3lr3db3g18dg8r2~x2/