Moncrieff of Atholl
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 GKGKGBGRGBGKR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2981
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2003 — Moncrieff of Atholl (register-of-tartans, record)
Dalgliesh weave. This is the same sett as #2517 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) - the only difference being that the broad black bands have been changed to blue. No information on why it has then been given the territorial suffix 'of Atholl' as Moncrieff already came from Atholl. Note from Phil Smith 18th Jan 2005 'Re: 'Moncrieffe of Atholl' Dalgliesh told me that after his father died, young Perigrine Moncrieffe was unhappy with his father's choice and had the new tartan woven. Unsure who designed it, either Moncrieffe or Dalgliesh or both.' - pre 2003 — Moncrieff of Atholl (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Dalgliesh weave. This is the same sett as #2517 - the only difference being that the broad black bands have been changed to blue. No information on why it has then been given the territorial suffix 'of Atholl' . . . Moncrieff already came from Atholl! Note from Phil Smith 18th Jan 2005 "Re: "Moncrieffe of Atholl" Dalgliesh told me that after his father died, young Perigrine Moncrieffe was unhappy with his father's choice and had the new tartan woven. I'm not sure who designed it, either Moncrieffe or Dalgliesh or both. - STS Journal says designer was Morag Moncreiffe.
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
- 2003 (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: 2981
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5940
Thread count
G/36 K4 G8 K8 G8 DB28 G36 R8 G36 DB36 G28 K4 R/12
One full sett is 456 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/g9k1g2k2g2db7g9r2g9db9g7k1r3~x4/