Stewart of Urrard (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 GRGRBRGRBRGRGR.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 14 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=898

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • pre 1930 — Stewart of Urrard (Clan?) (tartans-authority, record)
    Peter MacDonald swatch collection. Mackinlay scale. According to McGH this is also known as Stewart of Killicrankie. 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. Woven sample.
  • undated — Stewart of Killiecrankie (register-of-tartans, record)
    Peter MacDonald swatch collection. Mackinlay scale. According to McGH this is also known as Stewart of Killicrankie. 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 Scottish Tartans Society also has a sample by Coulson Bonner which has the blue as black.
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
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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above)
  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

G/12 R4 G4 R36 DP18 R6 G6 R6 DP18 R6 G48 R4 G4 R/8

One full sett is 340 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)

Sample pattern

G/12 R4 G4 R36 DP18 R6 G6 R6 DP18 R6 G48 R4 G4 R/8 tartan

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.

Frasers Highlanders (Military?)Wilson's No.119Bruce OldStewart of Urrard Clan TartanMcGlynnMatheson (Clan)MacDonald of Vallay (Uist) (?)LindsayLindsayDrummond #2groundcomplexity

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