Carson of Rusco (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 BRKWKWKRGGGGG.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3256
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 1996 — Carson of Rusco (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Count from a sample supplied by the late (2012) Graham Carson of Rusco (Gatehouse of Fleet, Castle Douglas) for whom the tartan was designed as a private family tartan. Graham Carson was one of the founder members of the Scottish Tartans Authority. Swatch in STA's Johnston Collection - undated — Carson of Rusco (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Count from a sample supplied by Graham Carson of Rusco (Gatehouse of Fleet, Castle Douglas) for whom the tartan was designed as a private family tartan. Graham Carson was one of the founder members of the Scottish Tartans Authority. Swatch in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection.
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
- pre 1996 (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 Register of Tartans: 5235
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3256
Thread count
DB/72 M4 K6 LB4 K16 LB4 K6 M4 DG22 G12 DG8 G8 DG/40
One full sett is 300 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) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| M | #CA047B #CA047B | oklch(55.0% 0.225 353.8) |
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/s13/db36m2k3lb2k8lb2k3m2dg11g6dg4g4dg20~x2/