Sutherland (Clan)
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 GWGKBKBKBRBR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=930
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1842 (1618) The earlier date refers to a letter from Gordon Earl of Sutherland instructing Murray of Dulrossie to 'remove the red and white lines from the plaids of the men so as to bring their dress into harmony with that of the other Septs.' This sett is also recorded by Smibert in 1850. Smiberts work lends greater authority to the accuracy of the tartan. Worn by the City of Nunawading Highland pipe band (Australia) (Strathallan 1994)
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1842 — Sutherland (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
From Vestiarium Scoticum. The foundation resembles the Black Watch with red and white lines superimposed (J Scarlett). STS notes for this tartan don't exactly make sense.: "The earlier date refers to a letter from Gordon Earl of Sutherland instructing Murray of Dulrossie to 'remove the red and white lines from the plaids of the men so as to bring their dress into harmony with that of the other Septs.' This sett is also recorded by Smibert in 1850. Smibert's work lends greater authority to the accuracy of the tartan." - 1842 — Sutherland Old Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Sutherland, Old (weddslist, record)
- undated — Sutherland (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 1842 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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 Tartans Authority (ITI): 930
Thread count
G/12 W4 G48 K24 DB6 K4 DB4 K4 DB24 R2 DB2 R/6
One full sett is 262 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) |
| 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/s12/g6w2g24k12db3k2db2k2db12r1db1r3~x2/