Currie (Clan)

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 GKGGGWGWGWGWG.

Part of the Currie tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 13 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/778/ — retired · Internet Archive copy

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
1822 (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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body’s archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired; dead record links are shown unlinked, with an Internet Archive copy (ITI numbers are not SRT references)
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

Gi/88 K2 Gi6 Y6 Gi6 W2 G42 W2 G6 W6 G6 W2 G/42

One full sett is 302 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
G#408060 #408060oklch(54.8% 0.084 160.1)
G#007800 #007800oklch(49.6% 0.169 142.5)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

Gi/88 K2 Gi6 Y6 Gi6 W2 G42 W2 G6 W6 G6 W2 G/42 tartan

ID: /variants/s13/gi44k1gi3y3gi3w1g21w1g3w3g3w1g21x2gi5408159-g4917141/

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