Cheape Clan 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 BKBKBKGWGKBKB.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=210
Provenance
Earliest known date: c.1906 The specimen in the Society's collection was presented by Mrs Dororthy Gray-Cheape of Forfar who was of the opinion that the T:roran (sic) branch of the family from the Glenfarg area, wore the tartan.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- c.1906 — Cheape Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 01/01/1934 — Cheape of Torosay (register-of-tartans, record)
The specimen in the Scottish Tartans Society's collection was presented by Mrs Dororthy Gray-Cheape of Forfar who was of the opinion that the Troran (a place and Barony on Mull) branch of the family from the Glenfarg area wore the tartan. - undated — Cheape (weddslist, record)
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
- c.1906 (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: 625
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 210
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 210
Thread count
DB/12 K2 DB2 K2 DB2 K12 G12 LB4 G12 K12 DB12 K2 DB/4
One full sett is 164 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) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
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/db6k1db1k1db1k6g6lb2g6k6db6k1db2~x2/