Holmes
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 GGGRGRGBKBKBGGGBKBKBGRGRGGGR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 28 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1752
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1830 — Holmes (register-of-tartans, record)
This sett appears in Paton's collection. The samples are undated but the collection is known to have been put together around the 1830's, with some additions during the Victorian period. This count has been halved for display purposes. See King Edward VII #502 (#1559, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) which is the same sett but with an extra black line in the blue. Note in Dalgety Archives from Margaret McDougal of Inverness Museum - same as Holmes, Family. Thought to be this one that she was referring to. - pre 1830 — Holmes (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
This sett appears in Paton's collection. The samples are undated but the collection is known to have been put together around the 1830's, with some additions during the Victorian period. This count has been halved for display purposes. See King George VII #1 (#1559) which is the same sett but with an extra black line in the blue. Note believed to be attached to the Kennedy in Dalgety Archives from Margaret McDougal of Inverness Museum - 'same as Holmes, Family'. See #128 which we know today as Home but which is named 'Holmes' in the 1880 Clans Originaux. - undated — Kennedy (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
- 1830 (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: 1752
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5729
Thread count
R/6 G6 Y4 G10 R4 G6 R4 G64 DB18 K6 DB10 K6 DB18 G78 Y8 G78 DB18 K6 DB10 K6 DB18 G64 R4 G6 R4 G10 Y4 G/6
One full sett is 952 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) |
| 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/y4g39db9k3db5k3db9g32r2g3r2g5y2g3r3~x2/