Elmore (Personal)
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 KWGKBGWRKRWGYKR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1104
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/07/2001 — Elmore (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
The original weave - shown at ITI 3998 - was refused because of its close similarity to MacGill, Chattan and MacFarland - which demonstrates the wisdom of checking before weaving. However, this sample still seems so similar that it's surprising that it was accepted. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Collection. Specifically a Restricted family tartan for Brian Elmore son of Kathy and Cecil Elmore from Ohio and those asked and attached to the family. - pre 2002 — Elmore (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
5869 was the original pattern said to have been woven for Brian Elmore of Maine by Linda Clifford. However when it came to registration it was refused becaasue of its similarity to MacGill, Chattan and MacFarlane. It is assumed that this modification shown here was in answer to that criticism and there is a woven sample of this sett (and not 5869) in the STA archives. because of its close similarity to MacGill, Chattan and MacFarland - which demonstrates the wisdom of checking BEFORE weaving! However, this sample still seems so similar that it's surprising that it was accepted.. Sample in STA Collection.
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
- 01/07/2001 (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: 1104
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3998
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2838
Thread count
R/58 K2 LO6 DG12 W12 R6 K2 R6 W4 DG6 DB10 K6 Y10 W10 K/8
One full sett is 250 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| 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/r29k1lo3dg6w6r3k1r3w2dg3db5k3y5w5k4~x2/