Dundonald
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 BRBRBRBRBKRBRBG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1040
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1960 — Dundonald (register-of-tartans, record)
Found in James Cant's manuscript book of 450+ hand-painted colour strips completed prior to 1960 and gifted to Jack Dalgety of Forfar and in turn gifted to the Scottish Tartans Authority in 2007 by Jack's son, John Dalgety of Dollar. Threadcount estimated from colour strip. Very similar to Cameron of Erracht. - pre 1960 — Dundonald (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Found in James Cant's manuscript book of 450+ hand-painted colour strips completed prior to 1960 and gifted to Jack Dalgety of Forfar and in turn gifted to the Tartans Authority in 2007 by Jack's son, John Dalgety of Dollar. Threadcount estimated from colour strip. Very similar to Cameron of Erracht. Assumed to be for the use of all those of the name.
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
- 1960 (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: 1040
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7118
Thread count
DB/50 R6 DB6 R4 DB8 R4 DB6 R6 DB36 K32 R2 DB32 R6 DB16 Y/4
One full sett is 382 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s15/db25r3db3r2db4r2db3r3db18k16r1db16r3db8y2~x2/