Stewart of Urrard Clan Tartan
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 GRGRBRGRBRGRGR.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=898
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 1930 A kilt in this material was brought into the Scottish Tartans Museum in Comrie which could be dated to before 1930. It belonged to a member of the Stewart Society at that time. The threadcount and the name were documented by Mackinlay, who studied and collected tartans between 1930 and 1950.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 1930 — Stewart of Urrard Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Stuart/Stewart of Urrard (register-of-tartans, record)
A kilt in this material was brought into the Scottish Tartans Society which could be dated to before 1930. It belonged to a member of the Stewart Society at that time. The threadcount and the name were documented by Mackinlay, who studied and collected tartans between 1930 and 1950. The Society also has a sample by Coulson Bonner which has the blue as black. - undated — Stewart of Urrard (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- pre 1930 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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: 4021
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 898
Thread count
G/12 R4 G4 R36 DB18 R6 G6 R6 DB18 R6 G48 R4 G4 R/8
One full sett is 340 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) |
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/s14/g6r2g2r18db9r3g3r3db9r3g24r2g2r4~x2/