Isla Grant (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 BRBGBGBRBWBKBRBRK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 17 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1862
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1996 — Isla Grant (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Lochcarron in 1996 for Isla Grant - a well known Scottish songwriter and singer. Now (2002) has several Platinum albums and sells her tartan scarves, ties etc to fans on her various tours overseas. Same record company as Foster & Allen. - 1996 — Isla Grant (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Lochcarron in1996 for Isla Grant - a well known Scottish songwriter and singer. Now (2002) has several Platinum albums and sells her tartan scarves, ties etc to fans on her various tours overseas. Same record company as Foster & Allen.
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
- 1996 (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: 1862
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5278
Thread count
K/8 R4 DB6 R6 DB10 K6 DB6 W6 DB6 R8 DB6 DG6 DB6 DG22 DB6 R6 DB/8
One full sett is 236 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s17/k4r2db3r3db5k3db3w3db3r4db3dg3db3dg11db3r3db4~x2/