Kidd
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 RKWRWKWKWKGGRWR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1957
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1790 — Kidd (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan was originally supplied by William Wilson and Sons of Bannockburn to a Mr Kidd who used it to clothe the slaves on his West Indian plantation. It was therefore called 'Kidd' in Wilson's pattern book. In 1822 Wilsons supplied this design to MacPherson and it was thereafter known as 'MacPherson'. - 1790s — Kidd (Clan?) (tartans-authority, record)
STS says this eventually became known as MacPherson. Rock & Wheel was an early type of soft tartan made with a spindle (a' rock') spun warp and a wheel spun weft. The count was taken from a manuscript account book in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland in Queen Street, Edinburgh. Sample in STA's Scarlett Collection. This is said to have been sold to a Scot called Kidd for clothing his West Indian slaves but in the rush for clan tartans during George IV's Edinburgh visit in 1822 it became the MacPherson. Prior to both those 'names' it was simply known as No. 43. The earliest known date from a list compiled by D C Stewart from Wilsons of Bannockburn letters is 1822.
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
- 1790 (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: 1957
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1409
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1409
Thread count
R/28 LB6 R24 G32 Y4 K22 LB14 K4 LB4 K4 LB14 R24 W6 K6 R/8
One full sett is 364 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/r14lb3r12g16y2k11lb7k2lb2k2lb7r12w3k3r4~x2/