Lorne, Marquis of
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 BKGKGKGKBKBKBKG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2222
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1871 — Lorne, Marquis of (register-of-tartans, record)
Partner to the 'Louise' tartan which was designed to take commercial advantage of the wedding of the Marquis of Lorne to Her Royal Highness the Princess Louise in 1871. Published in 'Campbell Tartan' by Alastair Campbell of Airds yr in 1985 where he quotes 'brought out by Mr M'Kissock of Girvan' and approved by the Marquis of Lorne. There is a companion to this sett in which the red stripe is replaced with black. They are collectively known as Lorne and Louise tartans. This is now regarded as a district tartan for the Lorne area - clan Campbell territory. - 1871 — 5th Royal Scots of Canada (Military) (tartans-authority, record)
Adopted as the Regimental tartan on assuming a Scottish identity for the whole regiment in 1880. By 1883 the unit had become kilted but had enormous difficulty in getting a standard shade for the different shipments of tartan. The Regiment thus presented a very patchy appearance on parade and the descision was taken to go over to the Government 42nd pattern. Adoption of the Lorne tartan had been out of deference to the then Marquis who was Governor-General of Canada. In due course the regiment became "The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada." - 1871 — Lorne (Royal?) (tartans-authority, record)
Partner to the 'Louise' tartan which was designed to take commercial advantage of the wedding of the Marquis of Lorne to Her Royal Highness the Princess Louise in 1871. Published in 'Campbell Tartan' by Alastair Campbell of Airdsd yr in 1985 where he quotes "brought out by Mr M'Kissock of Girvan" and approved by the Marquis of Lorne. There is a companion to this sett in which the red stripe is replaced with black. They are collectively known as Lorne and Louise tartans. In 1880 The Lorne was adopted by the 5th Royal Scots of Canada and used until they switched to the Government 42nd pattern (Black Watch). Jack Dalgety wrote (in James Cant's (d1960) colour strip book): "Said to have been designed by a Mr Ross of Glasgow in 1872 (according to The Scotsman of 20th April 1972). According to Alastair Campbell, both were featured on Mauchlineware by the Smith Brothers of Mauchline. He also insists that the Lorne is not a District tartan.
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
- 1871 (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: 2222
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5892
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 6
Thread count
DB/8 K4 G32 K4 G4 K4 G4 K32 DB4 K4 DB4 K4 DB32 K4 G/8
One full sett is 288 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) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
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/s15/db2k1g8k1g1k1g1k8db1k1db1k1db8k1g2~x4/