Gordon #3
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 BWGWGWWBWGWGRGRG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 16 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1451
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- undated — Gordon #3 (register-of-tartans, record)
A variation on the Red Gordon / Old Huntly. It is documented in a letter from a David Rodgers of Forfar addressed to Messrs Wilson of Bannockburn dated July 25th 1796. It illustrates the custom at the time to order tartan with some variation to suit individual requirements yet based on the traditional family or district sett. Wilsons of Bannockburn a weaving firm founded c1770 near Stirling, The Pattern books are in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh. Copys of the Pattern books and letters in the Scottish Tartans Society archive - undated — Gordon 1 (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
- 2017-01-06 (dataset default)
- 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: 1451
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 641
Thread count
DB/28 W2 G16 W2 DG32 LB12 W2 DB28 W2 G28 LB12 G12 R16 DG12 R16 DG/2
One full sett is 414 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s16/db14w1g8w1dg16lb6w1db14w1g14lb6g6r8dg6r8dg1~x2/