Stewart of Appin - 1906
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 GRWBRGRBRGRGRWBR.
Part of the Stewart of Appin tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 16 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=839
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1906 The Stewarts of Appin fueded relentlessly with the Campbells, and they were supported in these pursuits and other military activities by some of the Clan MacColl, whose tartan is very similar. The Stewarts of Ardshiel, a branch of the Appin Clan, have a certified tartan of their own dating back to the 1820's, which has elements of the Appin design. Stewarts of Appin are descended from Dugald, the son of Sir John Stewart of Lorne who was murdered in 1463. Dugald established the Appin branch of the family by dividing his lands between his five sons. The tartan is worn by the Stonehaven pipe bands.
5 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1906 — Stewart of Appin - 1906 (tartans-authority, record)
From W & A K Johnson's 1906 book. STS records another very close to this as 842 which includes a black - probably blue originally. The count for 842 is G4, R4, A4, K4, R42, G4, R4, B12, R4, G4, R6, G38, R4, A4, K4, R6 . STS notes: The Stewarts of Appin feuded relentlessly with the Campbells, and they were supported in these pursuits and other military activities by some of the Clan MacColl, whose tartan is very similar. The Stewarts of Ardshiel, a branch of the Appin Clan, have a certified tartan of their own dating back to the 1820's, which has elements of the Appin design. Stewarts of Appin are descended from Dugald, the son of Sir John Stewart of Lorne who was murdered in 1463. - 1906 — Stewart of Appin Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Stewart of Appin 4 (weddslist, record)
- undated — Stewart of Appin (weddslist, record)
- undated — Stewart of Appin (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 1906 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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
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Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 839
Thread count
R/6 DB4 LB2 R4 G48 R8 G4 R4 DB16 R4 G4 R48 DB4 LB2 R4 G/4
One full sett is 322 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| 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/r3db2lb1r2g24r4g2r2db8r2g2r24db2lb1r2g2~x2/