Lorne, Louise 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 BRGKGKGKBKBKBKG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2221
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1871 Brought out for 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.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1871 — Lorne, Louise of (register-of-tartans, record)
Brought out for 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 know as Lorne and Louise tartans. - 1871 — Louise Commemorative Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Louise (weddslist, 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
- 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: 2221
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 7
Thread count
DB/4 R2 G16 K4 G4 K4 G4 K16 DB4 K4 DB4 K4 DB16 K2 G/4
One full sett is 176 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) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/s15/db2r1g8k2g2k2g2k8db2k2db2k2db8k1g2~x2/