Grant of Auchnarrow
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 WRGRYWBWBGWRW.
Part of the Grant of Achnarrow tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1503
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 2003 This tartan can be seen in the form of an Arisaid at Kingussie museum.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1954 — Grant of Auchnarrow (register-of-tartans, record)
Count taken from a tartan plaid donated in 1954 to the founder of the Highland Folk Museum, Dr Isabel Frances Grant MBE, LLD, by a Miss Peace, said to be a descendant of 'a Strathspey tacksman' who held the farm of Auchnarrow. Originally designated 'Grant of Achnarrow', the reference is almost certainly a mis-spelling of Auchnarrow, a property near Castle Grant, north-east of Grantown-on-Spey. Auchnarrow was held in the 16th century by the Clann Chiaran sept of Clan Grant. The sett was confirmed by photographic evidence of the plaid at the Highland Folk Museum in September 2012. - pre 2003 — Grant of Acharrow Artifact Tartan (house-of-tartan, 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
- 1954 (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: 1503
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1844
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1844
Thread count
W/12 R4 W76 G16 DB12 W4 DB4 W4 LY28 R14 G4 R6 W/4
One full sett is 360 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) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
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/w6r2w38g8db6w2db2w2ly14r7g2r3w2~x2/