Seller Sillar Family 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 GKWGBGBGRWRW.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1737
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1978 The design is based on the Sillers connection with the Isle of Arran and the Clan Stewart.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1978 — Seller Sillar Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 01/01/2002 — Sellers/Sillars (register-of-tartans, record)
The design is based on the Sillers connection with the Isle of Arran and the Clan Stewart. A Mr D Sillars is mentioned in the Scottish Tartans Society record but not known in what capacity - probably the designer. - pre 2002 — Seller (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
The design is based on the Sillers connection with the Isle of Arran and the Clan Stewart. A Mr D Sillars is mentioned in the STS record but not known in what capacity - probably the designer..
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
- 1978 (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: 3764
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1737
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1737
Thread count
DY/126 K8 LB18 Y4 DB8 Y4 DB8 DY22 R16 LB4 R8 W/10
One full sett is 336 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/dy63k4lb9y2db4y2db4dy11r8lb2r4w5~x2/