Murray #2
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 BKBKBKGRGKBKB.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3057
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1831 — Murray #2 (register-of-tartans, record)
A version of the Murray sett but with a single red on the green and two blue pivots. Vestiarium Scoticum No: 61. The Setts No: 202. Logan's count for the Murray tartan shows a red line centred in the green only. This is No. 347 in James Scarlett's 'Highland Textile'. - 1885 — NSW Scottish Rifles (Military) (tartans-authority, record)
An Australian regiment dating back to 1885. The tartan is based on the ubiquitous Black Watch and was used by the regiment from 1885 - 1911. Same as early version of Murray/MacKinlay.)..
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Register of Tartans
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/register-of-tartans/data.csv
- data date
- 1831 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - 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: 3057
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 226
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 219
Thread count
DB/24 K4 DB4 K4 DB4 K24 G24 R8 G24 K24 DB24 K4 DB/8
One full sett is 328 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) |
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/db6k1db1k1db1k6g6r2g6k6db6k1db2~x4/