Clackson (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 BRBGBWBGBWBRB.
Part of the Clackson tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5831
Provenance
Earliest known date: June 2003 Designed by Dr. Stephen Gregory Clackson of Orkney for all bearers of any version of his armorial bearings, for all descendants of such persons and for all persons granted written permission by him or his heirs. Inspired by the armorial bearings of Dr Clackson (which are matriculated in the Public Register of all Arms and Bearings in Scotland) to commemorate the birth in Aberdeen of his daughter Frideswide Joyce Charlotte on the 13th February 2003.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- June 2003 — Clackson (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Dr. Stephen Gregory Clackson of Orkney for all bearers of any version of his armorial bearings, for all descendants of such persons and for all persons granted written permission by him or his heirs. Inspired by the armorial bearings of Dr Clackson (which are matriculated in the Public Register of all Arms and Bearings in Scotland) to commemorate the birth in Aberdeen of his daughter Frideswide Joyce Charlotte on the 13th February 2003. - June 2003 — Clackson Personal Weavers Tartan (house-of-tartan, 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
- June 2003 (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): 5831
Thread count
DB/48 R4 DB16 Y10 DB8 W10 DB8 Y10 DB8 W10 DB16 R4 DB/48
One full sett is 304 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.17 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/s13/db24r2db8y5db4w5db4y5db4w5db8r2db24~x2/