Robertson 1820 - White line
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 WGRBRBRGRBRGW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3528
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1820 — Robertson 1820 - White line (register-of-tartans, record)
Regency suit of Wilsons' cloth in the Scottish Tartans Society Collection that was worn by the Chief of the Levee of George IV in 1822. - Peter Eslea MacDonald May 07. From Smibert's, 'The Clans of the Highlands of Scotland' (1850) contains 55 tartan setts, provided in the greater part by Wilson's of Bannockburn. Smibert was anxious to 'ascertain and establish' the genuine old setts before 'the influx of such varieties made it impossible'. His name appears on the list of subscribers to Logan's book, 'The Scottish Gael' (1831). D.C. Stewart #213 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference). Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Dalgety Collection in reproduction colours. - 1820 — Robertson - 1820 (White line) (tartans-authority, record)
Regency suit of Wilsons' cloth in the STS Collection that was worn by the Chief o the Levee of George IV in 1822. - PEM May 07. From Smibert's, 'The Clans of the Highlands of Scotland' (1850) contains 55 tartan setts, provided in the greater part by Wilson's of Bannockburn. Smibert was anxious to 'ascertain and establish' the genuine old setts before 'the influx of such varieties made it impossible'. His name appears on the list of subscribers to Logan's book, 'The Scottish Gael' (1831). D.C. Stewart # 213. Sample in STA Dalgety Collection in repro colours. This tartan also appears in the Scott Adie Pattern book of around 1850 - CD in STA Archives. - undated — Robertson 7 (weddslist, record)
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
- 1820 (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: 3528
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1803
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1803
Thread count
W/2 G4 R36 DB4 R4 DB36 R4 G36 R4 DB4 R36 G4 W/2
One full sett is 348 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/w1g2r18db2r2db18r2g18r2db2r18g2w1~x2/